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Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

8 best books like Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (Christine Leigh Heyrman): The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Minutemen and Their World, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, Nejma, Salt

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0679736883
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
The Minutemen and Their World
AuthorRobert A. Gross
ISBN0809001209
Winner of the Bancroft Prize

The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
AuthorT.H. Breen
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable...
The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
AuthorColin G. Calloway
ISBN0195300718
In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, half a continent changed hands at the scratch of a pen....
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN0618267468
In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
AuthorJon Butler
ISBN0674056019
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in...
Nejma
AuthorNayyirah Waheed
ISBN1494493322
Nayyirah Waheed is brilliant, as always. Before I recommend this book, I would like to point out that her work is intended for POC (people of color). She has been subjected to quite a bit of appropriation lately, and whitewashing her words to fit a broader context is unacceptable. She is okay with non-POCs...
Salt
AuthorNayyirah Waheed
ISBN1492238287
Wow. I decided to pick this up on a whim for #DiverseAThon and I am beyond happy that I did. This was extremely powerful and moving. Many of the poems brought me to tears. This is without a doubt the best poetry collection I have ever read.
I am amazed at how in just a few short words, Nayyirah can invoke...
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