BIO:

Thomas Kidd is Professor of History at Baylor University and is Senior Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. His books include Baptists in America (Oxford, 2015, with Barry Hankins); George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father (Yale, 2014),  Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots, and God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. Among his other books are  American Christians and Islam, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, and The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under George Marsden. Kidd writes regularly for outlets including WORLD magazine and USA Today. Follow him on Twitter @ThomasSKidd or on Facebook. Sign up for his newsletter here.

PUBLICATIONS:

George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father

  by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2014 Publisher Yale University Press

Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots

  by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2011 Publisher: Basic Books

God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution

      by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2010 Publisher: Basic Books

American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism

      by Thomas Kidd Copyright: 2008 Publisher: Princeton University Press

The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America