Introduction: how to think historically
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
Were the British colonies Christian societies?
Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution
The Revolutionary pulpit
Nature's God: is the Declaration of Independence a Christian document?
Religion in the critical period
A "Godless constitution"?
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.