Weekends on cspan two are intellectual feast. Every saturday American History tv documents america story. And on sundays, book tv brings you the latest nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more including comcast. Do you think this is a community center, no, its way more than. That comcast partneringith 1000 Community Centers t create wifi enabled so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast, along with these Television Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. We tonights conversation will be about the 1960 president ial election, the effects of which continue to reverberate across todays political landscape. We all think we know that that history was well written and well spoken for. But, now, Erwin Gellman has become americas contemporary looted authority on the 1960 election. It is they first historian to use mounds of material from the archive to tell a more complete
Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies and were getting now into the 1700s. Today, in this week, im going to focus mostly on religion and the late control colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the 17 thirties and forties. And i know this has been on you alls mind since you have a paper on that coming up. So we are going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period, and then the lead up to the great awakening, some overview of whats happening in the great awakening. And hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield, who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london. Theyre in their 17 thirties, 17 forties, he is the sensation of the age. But well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. And weve talked about som