The Great Awakening

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies.
Balmer, Randall H. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

"The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism."
Bonomi, Patricia U.National Humanities Center (online publication).
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/midcol.htm

Audio and Video

Royal Rule and Religious Revival
A 30-minute television documentary about New Jersey in the early eighteenth century. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1993.

The Great Awakening (Online Video Clip)
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "American Revolution"
Click on "Antecedents"
Click on "Videos-Great Awakening"

Online Lectures

David Steven Cohen, "Troublesome Times a'Coming"
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "American Revolution"
Click on "Antecedents"
Click on "Online Lectures-David Cohen"
Click on "The Great Awakening"

Internet Sites

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
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Click on "American Revolution"
Click on "Antecedents"
Click on "The Great Awakening"