![]() The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 paperback edition, 2009).Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation, co-edited with Jay Green and Eric Miller (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction (Westminster/ John Knox Press, 2011).Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past (Baker Academic, 2013). ![]()
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