Creating the American Mind

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Focusing on the nine colonial colleges, this book explores their pivotal role in shaping early American intellectual life amidst significant political and cultural shifts, including Puritanism, Enlightenment thought, and the Great Awakening. J. David Hoeveler provides a comprehensive analysis of institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, tracing their influence on the country's intellectual development leading up to the American Revolution. This work offers a unique synthesis of how these colleges navigated and contributed to the era's ideological currents.