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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniel dreisbach”
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  • Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State

    by Daniel Dreisbach ...
    Series series Critical America
    The origins, controversies, and competing interpretations of the famous phrase: "A welcome and much-needed addition to [First Amendment] scholarship." — Journal of Interdisciplinary StudiesNo phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state," and few metaphors have provoked ... Read more

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  • Religion and Politics in the Early Republic

    Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate

    Edited by Daniel Dreisbach ...
    The church-state debate currently alive in our courts and legislatures is strikingly similar to that of the 1830s. A secular drift in American culture and the role of religion in a pluralistic society were concerns that dominated the controversy then, as now. In Religion and Politics in the Early Republic, Daniel L. Dreisbach compellingly argues that the issues in our current debate were framed in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rival Visions

    How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic

    by Dustin Gish, Eran Shalev, Darren Staloff, Armin Mattes, Daniel Dreisbach, John A. Ragosta, Christa Dierksheide, Peter S. Onuf, Professor Jean Yarbrough, PhD0, Daniel Klinghard1, Charles F. Hobson2 ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    by Michael I. Meyerson ...
    The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned ... Read more

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  • The Americans: The Colonial Experience

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 1 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... Read more

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  • The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    “One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.” — New York Times Book Review“During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.” — William and Mary Quarterly“[A] ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Forged in Faith

    How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776

    by Rod Gragg ...
    The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence and inspired the birth of the nation.This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Enlarged Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    **The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning classic.“One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book.” —New York Times Book Review**“[This book] influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street JournalAwarded both the Pulitzer and the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Against Slavery

    An Abolitionist Reader

    Edited by Mason Lowance ...
    "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

    by Frank Lambert ...
    How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency.Lambert ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Original Intent

    The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

    by David Barton ...
    In their own words, the Supreme Court has become “a national theology board,” “a super board of education,” and amateur psychologists on a “psycho-journey.” The result has been a virtual rewriting of the liberties enumerated in the Constitution. A direct victim of this judicial micromanagement has been the religious aspect of the First Amendment. For example, the Court now interprets that ... Read more

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