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The eighteenth century saw the rise of many exciting new political, religious, and scientific theories about human happiness, perfectibility, and progress that today we call “the Enlightenment.”
Lead Scholar: Caroline Winterer, Stanford University
Master Teacher: Lindsey Charron
Image: Engraving of Thomas Jefferson after a painting by R. Peale engraved by C. Tidout, 1801. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC05669)