The gentle Puritan : a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 /
by Edmund S. Morgan.
- 1 online resource (ix, 490 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, maps
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. .
"Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes index and bibliographical footnotes.
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. The Meaning of New England; 2. The Great Awakening; 3. Yale; 4. Infidelity; 5. Abigail; 6. Academic Dignity; 7. The Calling; 8. Newport; 9. A Library of Unwritten Books; 10. Dreams of Glory; 11. Puritanism Enlightened; 12. The Ministry; 13. Christian Freedom; 14. Anglicophobia; 15. The Edge of Civil War; 16. Christian Union and Disunion; 17. The Making of an American; 18. Uprooted; 19. Parson or President; 20. New Haven Again; 21. Wartime President; 22. Peacetime Battles; 23. The Collegiate Life; 24. The Academic Life; 25. The Great Reconciliation. 26. Private Life of a President27. A Yale Jacobin; Appendix; A Note on the Stiles Papers; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.