Ernest Cassara

The Enlightenment in America

Ernest Cassara is currently a professor of history at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and has served as chairman of the Department of History at that institution. He studied at Tufts University, Boston University, and the University of Cambridge. While teaching at Tufts, he was Curator of the Library and Archives of the Universalist Historical Society. He has also been a Dean at Goddard College, interim director at Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland, and Fulbright Professor at the University of Munich. Cassara's works include The Enlightenment in America (1975), History of the United States of America: A Guide to Information Sources (1977), Universalism in America: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith (1971), Hosea Ballou: The Challenge to Orthodoxy (1961). The Enlightenment in America was Cassara’s very first book, which revealed about the life and thought in eighteenth-century America.
The author of this thin volu...