Introduction: how to think historically
pt. 1. The United States is a Christian nation : the history of idea
Evangelical America, 1789-1865
Evangelicals, liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925
Christian America in a modern age, 1925-1980
History for the faithful : the contemporary defenders of Christian America
pt. 2. Was the American Revolution a Christian event?
Were the British colonies Christian societies?
Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution
Nature's God : is the Declaration of Independence a Christian document?
Religion in the critical period
A "godless constitution"?
pt. 3. The religious beliefs of the founders
Did George Washington pray at Valley Forge?
John Adams : devout Unitarian
Thomas Jefferson : follower of Jesus
Benjamin Franklin : ambitious moralist
What about Witherspoon? : three Orthodox founders.
