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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticKistler, Mark O.
Title, AnalyticGerman-American Liberalism and Thomas Paine
Journal TitleAmerican Quarterly
Date of PublicationSpring 1962
Volume ID14
Issue ID1
Location in Work81-91
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Abstract"[T]he immigrant Germans--over a span of fifty years--adopted Paine as a spiritual forebear and contributed to resurrecting his name. By striving to perpetuate the ideals of the colonial writer, German Americans helped to create a more tolerant and enlightened atmosphere in nineteenth-century America."
Call NumberDigital file
MKI TermsFreethinkers/ Forty-eighters/ Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809/ Festivals/ Politics