The story of the translation of the Bible in America begins with the King James Version. In fact, many Americans thought of the KJV as the foundational text of

In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises wh

There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired b

A new history explores the commercial heart of evangelical Christianity. American evangelicalism is big business. For decades, the world’s largest media congl

Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and th