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Thomas Kidd
BIO:
Thomas Kidd is Professor of History at Baylor University and is Senior Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. His books include Baptists in America (Oxford, 2015, with Barry Hankins); George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father (Yale, 2014), Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, and God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. Among his other books are American Christians and Islam, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, and The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under George Marsden. Kidd writes regularly for outlets including WORLD magazine and USA Today. Follow him on Twitter @ThomasSKidd or on Facebook. Sign up for his newsletter here.
PUBLICATIONS:
George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father 
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2014 Publisher Yale University Press
Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2011 Publisher: Basic Books
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2010 Publisher: Basic Books
American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2008 Publisher: Princeton University Press
The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2007 Publisher: Yale University Press
The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents
by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2007 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s Back to About the Authors
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