Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846

Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846
Author: James S Kabala
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317321006

Americans of the Early Republic devoted close attention to the question of what should be the proper relationship between church and state. Kabala examines this debate across six decades and shows that an understanding of this period is not possible without appreciating the key role religion played in the formation of the nation.

Star Territory

Star Territory
Author: Gordon Fraser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812252926

In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.