Thomas Kidd teaches history at Baylor University and is Senior Fellow at Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion. His newest book is Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots , published in 2011 with Basic Books. God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution was published in 2010, also by Basic Books. Additional recent books include American Christians and Islam , published in 2008 by Princeton University Press, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America , published by Yale University Press in 2007, and The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents , with Bedford Books in 2007. He has appeared on the Glenn Beck television program and written op-eds for USA Today and the Washington Post.