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Birds of Passage

History; American history

Immigrants who never intended to make the United States their home. Unable to make a living in their native countries, they came to America, worked and saved, and returned home. About 20 to 30 ...

Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to his conception of ...

Republican Motherhood

History; American history

This definition of motherhood, emanating from the American Revolution, assigned mothers the task of raising dutiful children, especially sons, who would be prepared to serve the nation in ...

Renaissance

History; American history

Beginning in the 1400s, the European Renaissance represented an intellectual and cultural flowering in the arts, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. One of the most important tenets of the ...

Remember the Maine!

History; American history

A national catch phrase following the mysterious 1898 explosion of the U. S. Battleship Maine in Havana harbor, inflamed public opinion, leading to the Spanish American War.

Religious Liberalism

History; American history

A religious viewpoint that rejected the Calvinist doctrines of original sin and predestination and stressed the basic goodness of human nature.

Social Gospel

History; American history

A movement among Christian theologians, it applied Christian doctrines to social problems and advocated creating living conditions conducive to saving souls by tackling the problems of the poor.