The Democratization of American Christianity

A reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American Republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. This book was co-winner of the 1990 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize.

• American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon
• A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (Library of Religious Biography)
• Jonathan Edwards: On Revival
• On Christian Liberty (Facets)
• A Religious History of the American People
• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
• City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
• America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
• God of the Oppressed
• A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)