Sam Haselby is a historian of religion and American political culture. He earned his PhD at Columbia University, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has been a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. His writings on U.S. politics and religion in historical perspective have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian. He is working on a book about the opium trade. Currently, he is a visiting faculty member at Columbia University.

ambitious and thought-provoking book that challenges common understandings of the earliest stages of American nationalism.

• Introduction Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism Chapter 2 ''The Songs of a Nation'': The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic Chapter 5 ''The Love of Order and Righteous Laws'': Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement Chapter 6 ''A Complete Chain of Communication'': Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building Epilogue--A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism Index

Sam Haselby is a historian of religion and American political culture. He earned his PhD at Columbia University, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has been a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. His writings on U.S. politics and religion in historical perspective have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian. He is working on a book about the opium trade. Currently, he is a visiting faculty member at Columbia University.

ambitious and thought-provoking book that challenges common understandings of the earliest stages of American nationalism.

• Introduction Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism Chapter 2 ''The Songs of a Nation'': The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic Chapter 5 ''The Love of Order and Righteous Laws'': Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement Chapter 6 ''A Complete Chain of Communication'': Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building Epilogue--A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism Index

Sam Haselby is a historian of religion and American political culture. He earned his PhD at Columbia University, was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has been a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo. His writings on U.S. politics and religion in historical perspective have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian. He is working on a book about the opium trade. Currently, he is a visiting faculty member at Columbia University.

ambitious and thought-provoking book that challenges common understandings of the earliest stages of American nationalism.

• Introduction Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism Chapter 2 ''The Songs of a Nation'': The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic Chapter 5 ''The Love of Order and Righteous Laws'': Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement Chapter 6 ''A Complete Chain of Communication'': Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building Epilogue--A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism Index