Key ResourcesAmericans 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 BooksJohn 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 PressThe 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 | BlogsTFN Insider Religion in American History Right Wing Watch Talk2Action Warren Throckmorton The Way of Improvement Leads Home (John Fea) Journal ArticlesCardozo 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 |
