The American historian Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929) is known for his three-volume intellectual history of America, Main Currents in American Thought.Born at Aurora, Ill., on Aug. 3, 1871, Verno...
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Vernon Louis Parrington, whose Main Currents in American Thought has been the most influential Jeffersonian statement of American intellectual history in the twentieth century, must be numbered among ...
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Vernon Louis Parrington was a pioneer in the development of historical approaches to American literature. His reputation is based almost solely upon a single work written late in his career, Main Curr...
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