Salem Witch Trials and the Great Awakening
Lectures in History
C-SPAN
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🗓️ 1 August 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:33.8 | This is C-SPAN's Lectures in History podcast. |
| 0:42.5 | This week, a class on the Salem witch trials and the Great Awakening in the Americans. |
| 0:54.6 | Baylor University professor Thomas Kidd explains how the Salem witch trials and the decline of Puritanism led to an era of traveling preachers and an emphasis on evangelism. |
| 1:01.1 | We've been talking about the founding of the American colonies, |
| 1:05.0 | and we're getting now into the 1700s. |
| 1:13.8 | Today and this week I want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 40s, and I know this has been on you all's mind since you have |
| 1:18.6 | a paper coming up about that. |
| 1:20.3 | So we're going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period and then |
| 1:25.9 | the lead up to the Great Awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the Great Awakening, |
| 1:31.6 | and then hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. |
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