Post-Christmas Gifts

These books are not out yet so you cannot give them as Christmas gifts, but I am looking forward to reading them in the new year.

Kariann Yokota, Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation 

Gordon Wood, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States 

Alfred Young, Ray Raphael, and Gary Nash, Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation.

Benjamin Irvin, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors

Ruma Chopra, Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution. 

Maya Janasoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World’

Edward Lengel, Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth and Memory

Daniel Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts

Douglas Winarski, et. al, From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia  

Of course if you need a last minute gift before December 25, you can always pick up a copy of:

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in America


Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation


Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction.  (Actually, this one is not due out until February).

RECOMMENDED READING

When It Comes to Religious Freedom, Do Jefferson and Madison Still Matter? REVIEW: What Hath Law to Do with Democracy? Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look. Government and the Private Side of the Wall of Separation