The People Called New Lights Blog

From maritime Canada to the Carolina backcountry, New England to the Illinois prairies, Protestants in British North America and the new United States influenced by the evangelical awakenings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were known as the "people called New Lights." This occasional blog features news, reviews, and research notes, along with dispatches from the archives and edited transcriptions of notable, obscure, and downright quirky manuscripts chronicling the religious beliefs, practices, and experiences of the people called New Lights from 1730 to 1850.

Recorded 13 February 2019 at Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA -- Douglas L. Winiarski receives the 2018 Gomes Prize for Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in 18th-Century New England. Winiarski joined historian Stephen Marini in a conversation about religious revivalism and the shaping influence of religious awakenings on faith and culture in eighteenth-century New England.

Talking DFLL with Steve Marini

March 22, 2019

I recently discussed Darkness Falls on the Land of Light at the Massachusetts Historical Society with Stephen Marini, one of my favorite scholars of religion in early America. Here’s the YouTube video from MHS. Gulp!

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