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date: 22 May 2025

Radicalism. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Paul BuhlePaul Buhle

Radicalism in the United States owes its origins to the so-called Radical Reformation of the sixteenth century and to civil rebellions and millenarian movements reaching far back in human memory. Indian rebellions against European colonizers and transplanted pietist communes offer the clearest precursors of American political radicalism. Thomas ... ...

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