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General History
The Religious History of America
Gaustad, Edwin S. and Leigh E. Schmidt
200.973 GAUSTAD
Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America
Marty, Martin
291.097 M
Religion in Nineteenth Century America
Wacker, Grant
200.973 WACKER
Deism and the Founding of America
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
Holmes, David L.
200.973 HOLMES
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the making of a nation
Meacham, Jon
322.109 MEACHAM
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Waldman, Steven
323.442 WALDMAN
323.442 W (Books On Disc)
Puritanism and Dissent in Early America
The Puritans in America: A narrative anthology
Heimert, Alan and Andrew Delbanco (eds.)
285.9 PURI
American Jezebel: the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
LaPlante, Eve
Biography, HUTCHINSON, A.
Native American Religion in Early America
The spiritual legacy of the American Indian
Brown, Joseph Epes
299.7 B
A Native American theology
Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley and George E. Tinker
299.7 KIDWELL
The land looks after us: A history of Native American religion
Martin, Joel W.
299.7 MARTIN
Cherokee dance and drama
Speck, Frank and Leonard Bloom<
793.31 SPECK
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Building the kingdom: a history of Mormons in America
Bushman, Claudia Lauper and Richard Lyman Bushman
289.373 BUSHMAN
Joseph Smith and the beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman Richard L.
289.309 BUSHMAN
Mormons in America
Bushman, Claudia Lauper and Richard Lyman Bushman
289.373 BUSHMAN
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in North Carolina: with a detailed record of the church in Durham
Draughon, Wallace R.
289.375 DRAUGHTON
Mormon Polygamy: A history
Van Wagoner, Richard S.
289.3 VAN WAGONER
African American Religion from Emancipation to Jim Crow
The Black church in the African-American experience
Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya
277.308 LINCOLN
Terror and triumph: the nature of Black religion
Pinn, Anthony B.
200.899 PINN
Canaan Land: a religious history of African Americans
Raboteau, Albert J.
200.899 RABOTEAU
'The Almighty has His own purposes': Religion in the American Civil War
The origins of proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Irons, Charles F.
241.675 IRONS
Religion and the American Civil War
Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout and Charles Reagan Wilson (eds.)
973.778 RELI
The Civil War as a theological crisis
Noll, Mark A.
277.308 NOLL
The Scopes Trial
In the beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes trial, and the making of the antievolution movement
Lienesch, Michael
231.765 LIENESCH
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Heaven below: early Pentecostals and American culture
Wacker, Grant
289.94 WACKER
Religious Freedom and the Needs of Special Children: Kiryas Joel Goes to the Supreme Court
Between church and state: religion and public education in multicultural America
Fraser, James
379.28 FRASER
Liberty of conscience: in defense of America’s tradition of religious equality
Nussbaum, Martha
323.442 NUSSBAUM
Intersection of Religion and Politics in the 20th century
God in the White House: a history: how faith shaped the presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Balmer, Randall
973.099 BALMER
A stone of hope: prophetic religion and the death of Jim Crow
Chappell, David L.
323.119 CHAPPELL
Faith in the halls of power: how evangelicals joined the American elite
Lindsay, D. Michael
277.308 LINDSAY