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In this episode of BackStory, we’ll go behind the rhetoric to unpack the history and meaning of the term. From the Puritan vision of a “city upon a hill” to the 19th century concept of manifest destiny, we’ll explore the ways Americans have invoked history to justify their sense of superiority in the world, and assess the changing ...
16. Dez. 2021 · The concept of American exceptionalism has provided US citizens with a representative form of self-recognition across the centuries. John Winthrop’s admonition to his fellow New England colonists is usually cited as the foundational moment of American exceptionalism: “We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”.
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8. Nov. 2021 · A dominant theme in the story of the American, city-on-a-hill experience is manifest destiny, a term literally expressing a sense of a rightful, westward expansion across the continent in the late 19 th century, but more broadly expressing a general entitlement granted, it is often understood, divinely to an exceptional United States of America. The origins, the political-versus-religious ...
25. Feb. 2020 · City on a Hill; Also Available: City on a Hill A History of American Exceptionalism. by Abram C. Van Engen. 392 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 x 1.06 in, 19 b-w illus. Hardcover ; 9780300229752; Published: Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020; $32.00. BUY . eBook; 9 ...
1. Jan. 2015 · But the idea of exceptionalism, as it has been used to describe American history and institutions, assumes not only that the United States has been unlike other nations, but that it is exceptional in the sense of being exemplary (‚a city upon a hill‘), or a beacon among nations; or immune from the social ills and decadence that have beset all other republics in the past; or that it is ...
13. Nov. 2018 · How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630.
