Today’s Library Order

Here are some books I just ordered for the Messiah College library.

Mark David Hall, Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic

Jill Lepore, The Story of America: Essays and Origins

William Hogeland, Founding FInance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

James Rice, Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America

Willard Sterne Randall, Ethan Allen: His Life and Times

Gordon Wood, The Idea of America 

 Frazer, The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolution

 William Ryan, The World of Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution

Jane Calvert, Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson 

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

Peter  Moore, ed., The South Carolina Diary of Reverence Archibald Simpson: Part II, April 1770-March 1784

Richard Archer, As If An Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution

Allegra di Bonaventura, For Adam’s Sake: A Tale of Two Families in Colonial New England

Catherine Brekus, Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

John Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

Francis Bremer, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds

Brycchan Carey, From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761

Beverly Tomek, Colonization and its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania 

Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race 

Bruce Daniels, New England Nation: The Country the Puritans Built 

 Jennifer Anderson, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

Evan Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty