Was America founded as a Christian nation?: a historical introduction

Introduction: How to think historically

Part 1. The United States is a Christian nation: the history of an idea. Evangelical America, 1789-1865

Evangelicals, liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925

Christian America in a modern age, 1925-1980

History for the faithful: the contemporary defenders of Christian America

Part 2. Was the American revolution a Christian event? Were the British colonies Christian societies?

Christianity and the coming of the American revolution

The revolutionary pulpit

Nature's God: is the declaration of independence a Christian document?

Religion in the critical period

A "godless constitution"?

Part 3. The religious beliefs of the founders. Did George Washington pray at Valley Forge?

John Adams: devout Unitarian

Thomas Jefferson: follower of Jesus

Benjamin Franklin: ambitious moralist

What about Witherspoon?: three orthodox founders.