{"id":42311,"date":"2012-03-09T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?p=42311"},"modified":"2021-02-17T01:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:21:02","slug":"video-noah-webster-the-forgotten-founding-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/2012\/03\/09\/video-noah-webster-the-forgotten-founding-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Date: February 2, 2012<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Noah Webster, the Forgotten Founding Father\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/38025895?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Get to know Noah Webster, a brusque, ambitious intellectual who influences you every time you speak or start to write.<\/h4>\n<p>Noah Webster was born in 1758 in Connecticut of a prestigious Puritan Yankee lineage. Although he tried variously to be a lawyer, a school teacher, and a newspaperman with various degrees of success, his talents always led him to write. Not fiction or poetry; instead, Webster was a born compiler of information. His reference book, <em>The American Spelling Book<\/em> was the first true bestseller of early American publishing and taught a young nation the rudiments of reading and writing.<\/p>\n<p>In 1828 he published the groundbreaking <em>American Dictionary of the English Language<\/em> and secured his niche as an avatar of a distinct American culture. 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