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The Author

Thomas S. Kidd is distinguished professor of history at Baylor University and the author of several books, including Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots (Basic, 2011), George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father (Yale, 2014), Baptists in America: A History with Barry Hankins (Oxford, 2015), and Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father (Yale, 2017). You can follow him on Twitter.

Thomas’s Books

Introducing My New American History Textbook

Thomas Kidd
A video introduction to my latest project, an American History textbook.

Patriots and Pastors: The Case of Jonathan Mayhew

Thomas Kidd
War usually needs sacred sanction. Did the American Revolution

Jonathan Edwards and the Damage of the Great Awakening

Thomas Kidd
The pleasures and challenges of a life of faith

The Danger of Politicized Pastors

Thomas Kidd
America’s Founders knew that political partisanship turns the church
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