Key Resources
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
David Barton Resources
Baptist Join Committee for Religious Liberty
A Critique of David Barton’s Views on Church and State
Chris Rodda
Liars for Jesus
People for the American Way
David Barton Resources
Southern Poverty Law Center
Barton: Extremist ‘Historian’ for the Religious Right
Warren Throckmorton & Michael Coulter
Getting Jefferson Right
Books
John Fea
Was America Founded As a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction
Michelle Goldberg
Kingdom Coming
Steven K. Green
The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Mark A. Noll, et al
The Search for Christian America
Richard T. Hughes
Christian America and the Kingdom of God
Chris Rodda
Liars for Jesus
Warren Throckmorton & Michael Coulter
Getting Jefferson Right
Mainstream Press
The Christian Century
American Idol: David Barton’s dream of a Christian nation, by Kurt W. Peterson
NPR
The Most Influential Evangelist You’ve Never Heard Of, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
NPR
Cue The Tape: How David Barton Sees The World, by Elise Hu and Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Harpers
How David Barton Won the Christian Right, by Yoni Appelbaum
Journal of Church and State
Texas Tall Tale, by Rob Boston
David Barton’s “Christian Nation” Myth Factory Admits Its Products Have Been Defective, by Rob Boston
Thomas Jefferson and the “Wall of Separation” Metaphor, by Derek H. Davis
Law, Morals, and Civil Religion in America, by Derek H. Davis
Christian Faith and Political Involvement in Today’s Culture War, by Derek H. Davis
Religious Pluralism and the Quest for Unity in American Life, by Derek H. Davis
Reappropriating History for God and Country, by Richard V. Pierard and Charles McDaniel
Martin Marty Center
David Barton’s Christian America, by Martin E. Marty
Mother Jones
The GOP’s Favorite Fringe Historian
The New York Times
How Christian Were the Founders?, by Russell Shorto
Using History to Mold Ideas on the Right, by Erik Eckholm
Religion Dispatches
The Limits of David Barton’s “Freedom of Religion” Argument, by Julie Ingersoll
Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe, by Paul Harvey
Why Won’t David Barton Submit to Peer Review?, by Joanna Brooks
Religion in American History
Glory Hallelujah: While Barton Marches On, Historians Live to Fight Another Day, by Paul Harvey
Not into History, by Randall Stephens
TIME Magazine
The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America
Texas Monthly
King of the Christocrats
History News Network
David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies Voted the Least Credible History Book in Print
WORLD Magazine
The David Barton Controversy, by Thomas Kidd
Associated Baptist Press
Pastors Call for Thomas Nelson Boycott, by Bob Allen
First Things
David Barton’s Errors, by Greg Forster |
Blogs
TFN Insider
Religion in American History
Right Wing Watch
Talk2Action
Warren Throckmorton
The Way of Improvement Leads Home (John Fea)
Journal Articles
Cardozo Law Review
Understanding the “Christian Nation” Myth, by Steven K. Green
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Defending the Wall: Maintaining Church/State Separation in America, by Arlen Specter
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
A Textbook Example of the Christian Right: The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools. by Mark A. Chancey
Kentucky Law Journal
Religion, Establishment, and the Northwest Ordinance: A Closer Look at an Accommodationist Argument, by Thomas Nathan Peters
Law, Text, Culture 5, No. 1 (2000): 265-90
Competing Notions of Law in American Civil Religion, by Derek H. Davis
Liberty University Faculty Publications and Presentations
A Critique of the Historiographical Construal of America as a Christian Nation, by John David Wilsey
Religion & Education, Volume 35, Issue 1, 2008
“Complete Victory is Our Objective”: The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, by Mark A. Chancey
SMU Law Review
Take Care of Me When I Am Dead: An Examination of American Church-State Development and the Future of American Religious Liberty, by Mark G. Valenci
Southwestern Journal of Theology
In God We Trust? Evangelical Historiography and the Quest for a Christian America, by Stephen M.Stookey
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Public Education and the Public Good, by Robert S. Alley
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