Books I Hope to Read in 2014

Here are some forthcoming books I want to read (and possibly review here at the blog) in 2014.

Francois Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation (Penguin)

John Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller III, Inventing Ethan Allen (University Press of New England)

John Pinheiro, Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Oxford)

Thomas Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution (Hill and Wang)

Margaret Sumner, Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America (Virginia)

Francis Cogliano, Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy (Yale)

Philip Papas, Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee (NYU)

Doron Ben-Atar and Richard Brown, Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (Penn)

George E. O’Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1609-1807 (North Carolina–Omohundro)

Barry Shain, The Declaration of Independence in Historcial Context (Yale)

Nancy Koester, Harriett Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life (Eerdmans)

Christina Hodges, Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America (Cambridge)

Elizabeth Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Hill and Wang)

Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (Basic)

John Compton, The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution (Harvard)

Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank, ed., Quakers and Abolition (Illinois)

Robert Rea, Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past (IVP)

RECOMMENDED READING

Separation of Church and State, China Style On the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him Some brief reflections on “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.