EDUC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christianity Today, Deism, Puritans
3 Sep 2018
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Historical myths: colu(cid:373)(cid:271)us"s dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455) of a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a: leif erikso(cid:374), a norse e(cid:454)plorer, la(cid:374)ded i(cid:374) north. America 500 years before columbus in the 10th century: puritans came to the new world seeking religious freedom: holland was actually allowing too much freedom, so they wanted to practice just their beliefs in the new. World: first thanksgiving: a story first told by abraham lincoln during the civil war when the country was divided; story symbolizes unity, in reality, the europeans killed the native. Americans: the founding fathers were christians: some were, but not the way we describe. 15 he had mastered differential and integral calculus. No- not everyone got the same kind of education. Important only after the civil war: before the cw it was against the law to educate black slave children. In the north, freed blacks received some education in the common schools,
