The gentle Puritan : a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 /

Morgan, Edmund Sears.

The gentle Puritan : a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 / by Edmund S. Morgan. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, (c)1974. - 1 online resource (ix, 490 pages, 4. pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, maps. - 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."



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



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Yale University--Presidents--Biography.


College presidents--Connecticut--Biography.


Electronic Books.

LD6330 1778 / .G468 1974