Glorious Generation

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U.S. Generations * = dates disputed, ^ = Strauss and Howe This box: view • talk • edit
Term	Period
^Puritan Generation	1588–1617
Puritan Awakening	1621–1649
^Cavalier Generation ^Glorious Generation ^Enlightenment Generation ^Awakening Generation	1618-1648 1648-1673 1674-1700 1701–1723
First Great Awakening	1727–1746
^Liberty Generation ^Republican Generation ^Compromise Generation	1724–1741 1742–1766 1767–1791
Second Great Awakening	1790–1844
Transcendentalist Generation ^Transcendental Generation ^Gilded Generation ^Progressive Generation	1789–1819 1792–1821 1822–1842 1843–1859
Third Great Awakening	1886–1908
^Missionary Generation Lost Generation Interbellum Generation G.I. Generation Greatest Generation	1860–1882 1883–1900 1900–1910 1900–1924 1911–1924
Jazz Age	1918-1929
Beat Generation Silent Generation Baby Boomers Generation Jones	fl. 1950s-1960s 1925–1945 *1940s-1960s 1954–1965
Consciousness Revolution	1964–1984
Generation X ^13th Generation MTV Generation Boomerang Generation	*1960s–1980s 1961-1981 1974–1985 1977–1986
Culture Wars	1980s–present
Generation Y ^Millennial Generation Echo Boom Generation Internet Generation ^New Silent Generation	1970s–1990s 1982-2000 1982–1995 1994–2001 1990s or 2000s-?

In Strauss and Howes Generations and the Fourth Turning, the Glorious Generation were a Hero/Civic type generation in Colonial America born from 1648-1673. They entered a protected childhood of tax-supported schools and new laws discouraging the "kidnapping" of young servants. After proving their valor in the Indian wars and the Glorious Revolution, they were rewarded with electoral office at a young age. As Young Adults, they took pride in the growing political, commercial and scientific achievements of England and viewed the passion and poverty of their parents as embarresments to be overcome. In midlife, they designed insurance, paper money and (in the South) founded a stable slave owning oligarchy. As worldy elders, they received the colonies first war service pensions and land grants while taking offense at the spiritual zeal of youth.

Their founding of slavery was a dehumanizing signifcance in American history leading to two centuries of hatred and blood like the Civil War haunting future generations than would benefit the Glorious in wealth.

Their parents were the Puritan Generation and Cavalier Generation. Their children were the Enlightment Generation and Awakening generation. Their grandchildren were the Liberty Generation.

Cotton Mather a famous colonial assemblyman is a famous member of this generation.

Hannah Dustin is a member of this generation as well.

Famous foreign peers include François Couperin, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, Henry Purcell, and William III of England.