Title

The Presbyterian Rebellion?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-5-2013

Publication Title

Journal of the American Revolution

Keywords

Presbyterian, rebellion, Revolutionary War, United States

Abstract

Though the events transpired almost a quarter of a millenium ago, the shelves down at the local Barnes & Noble bookstore routinely continue to display freshly researched, written, and published histories of the American Revolution, the founding fathers, and the genesis of the United States. Yet there remains an element of the American founding era that is routinely underrepresented in these volumes—the role of religion. It is a factor of the Revolution that many historians minimize. The revolution, they maintain, was essentially secular in nature.

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