Background
McLoughlin, William Gerald was born on June 11, 1922 in Maplewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of William G. and Florence M. (Quinn) McLoughlin.
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In Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, McLoughlin draws on psychohistory, sociology, and anthropology to examine the relationship between America's five great religious awakenings and their influence on five great movements for social reform in the United States. He finds that awakenings (and the revivals that are part of them) are periods of revitalization born in times of cultural stress and eventuating in drastic social reform. Awakenings are thus the means by which a people or nation creates and sustains its identity in a changing world. "This book is sensitive, thought-provoking and stimulating. It is 'must' reading for those interested in awakenings, and even though some may not revise their views as a result of McLoughlin's suggestive outline, none can remain unmoved by the insights he has provided on the subject."—Christian Century "This is one of the best books I have read all year. Professor McLoughlin has again given us a profound analysis of our culture in the midst of revivalistic trends."—Review and Expositor
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With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
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The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and "civilize" all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens. From the standpoint of the Cherokees, rather than from that of the white policymakers, William McLoughlin tells the dramatic success story of the "renascence" of the tribe. He goes on to give a full account of how the Cherokees eventually fell before the expansionism of white America and the zeal of Andrew Jackson.
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McLoughlin, William Gerald was born on June 11, 1922 in Maplewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of William G. and Florence M. (Quinn) McLoughlin.
AB, Princeton University, 1947; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1953.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1947, graduating Phi Beta Kappa after having taken a three-year hiatus from his studies to serve as a first lieutenant in the field artillery in World World War World War II He did graduate work in history, receiving his Master of Arts
McLoughlin started as an assistant professor at Brown. In 1963, he was promoted to a full professorship. In 1981, he was appointed the Annie McClelland and Willard Prescott Smith Professor of History and Religion.
In 1992, McLoughlin was named the first Chancellor"s Fellow at Brown, allowing him to continue teaching although he had earned emeritus status.
McLoughlin was regarded as “one of the country’s most distinguished historians of American religion.”
McLoughlin opposed American involvement in the Vietnam War and was active in the civil rights movement. He was a former chair of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union.
A major religion case that McLoughlin and the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union took on in 1984 was ultimately heard by the United States. Supreme Court (Lynch v Donnelly). Foreign his work to advance civil rights, in 2004 McLoughlin was posthumously inducted into the Review
Doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
Memorial Hall of Fame in Providence, Rhode Island, along with Robert Bailey IV.
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Chairman Rhode Island affiliate American Civil Liberties Union, 1969-1970, chairman free speech committee, 1985-1992. Chairman Rhode Island Committee for Peace in Vietnam, 1970. Former chairman various Parent-Teachers Association's, Providence.
Second lieutenant Field Artillery, Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member American Antiquarian Society, Society American Historians, Massachusetts History Society.
Married Virginia Ward Duffy, December 25, 1951. Children: Helen, Gail, Martha.