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Reviews
Forgotten Patriots by Edwin G. Burrows. Journal of Presbyterian History 88 (Fall/Winter 2010): 78-79.
Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought by J.S. Maloy. Perspectives on Politics 7 (September 2009): 650-52
Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James A. Morone. American Historical Review 109 (June 2004): 893-94
Case for Conservatism by John Kekes. Modern Age 42 (Summer 2000): 291-96.
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic by James H. Hutson. Harvard Divinity Bulletin 28 (Summer 1999): 16-18.
American Work Values by Paul Bernstein. William and Mary Quarterly 56 (April 1999): 474-76
Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe. Journal of American History 85 (June 1998): 234-35
Natural Rights And The New Republicanism by Michael Zuckert. American Historical Review 101 (April 1996): 558-59.