The Great Awakening Just before mid-century the country experienced its first foremost religious revival. ... The followers of the Awakening and its evangelical force developed into the largest American Protestant denominations by the earliest decades of the nineteenth century. ...
In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? ...