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In Exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
On Eighteenth-Century Virginia Petitions
Bailey, Raymond C. Popular Influence upon Public Policy: Petitioning in Eighteenth Century Virginia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Church, Randolph W., comp. Virginia Legislative Petitions, 1776-1782. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1984.
On the Development of Religion in Early America
Ahlstrom, Sydney. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Bebbington, David W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Boles, John. The Great Revival, 1787-1805: the Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972.
Bonomi, Patricia. Under the Cope of Heaven. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Breen, Timothy. The Character of the Good Ruler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
Buckley, Thomas E. Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.
Bushman, Richard, ed. The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion. New York: Atheneum, 1970.
Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Carwardine, Richard. Trans-Atlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1815. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Cole, Charles. The Social Ideas of Northern Evangelists. New York: Octagon Books, 1966.
Cooke, Jacob E., ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.
Crawford, Michael J. Seasons of Grace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Curry, Thomas J. The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Foster, Charles I. An Errand of Mercy: The Evangelical United Front, 1790-1837. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of our Fathers. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
Gaustad, Edwin S. The Great Awakening in New England. New York: Harper, 1957.
Gaustad, Edwin S. Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Gaustad, Edwin S. Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996.
Griffin, Clifford. Their Brothers' Keeper: Moral Stewardship in the United States, 1800 1865. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Hall, David. The Faithful Shepherd. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966.
Heyrman, Christine Leigh. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Hood, Fred J. Reformed America: The Middle and Southern States, 1783-1837. University, Ala.: University Press of Alabama, 1980.
Hutson, James H. Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998.
Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Juster, Susan. Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Keller, Charles. The Second Great Awakening in Connecticut. Hamden, Conn.: Anchor Books, 1968.
Mathews, Donald G. Religion in the Old South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
McLoughlin, William. Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.
Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Miller, Perry. Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Noll, Mark. Christians in the American Revolution. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Christian University Press, 1977.
Noll, Mark, ed. Religion and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Noll, Mark, David W. Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk, eds. Evangelicalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Peterson, Merrill D., and Robert C. Vaughan, eds. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Rahe, Paul A. Republics Ancient and Modern. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Smylie, James. American Presbyterians: A Pictorial History. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Historical Society, 1985.
Sobel, Mechal. Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Stout, Harry. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Tweed, Thomas A., ed. Retelling U.S. Religious History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
West, John G., Jr. The Politics of Revelation and Reason. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
Westerkamp, Marilyn. The Triumph of the Laity: Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Much of this bibliography was adapted from James H. Hutson, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998).