Christine Leigh Heyrman

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Name Christine Heyrman		Role Historian

Education Yale University (1977), Macalester College (1971) Awards Bancroft Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books US: A Narrative History V, Southern Cross, US: A Narrative History - V, Nation of Nations: Study Gui, Experience History: Interpreti Similar People Brian DeLay, Michael B Stoff, William Gienapp, James West Davidson, Reinhard Zimmermann

Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American historian.

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Life

She graduated from Macalester College in 1971, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1977. She is Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).

Awards

1998 Bancroft Prize

Works

Heyrman, Christine Leigh. “The Separation of Church and State from the American Revolution to the Early Republic.” Divining America, National Humanities Center

Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. W W Norton & Co Inc. 1986. ISBN 978-0-393-95518-7.

Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. Knopf. 1997. ISBN 978-0-679-44638-5.

Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic. McGraw-Hill College. 2004. ISBN 978-0-07-299631-9. (6th ed., 2007)

American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0-809-02398-1.

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Christine Leigh Heyrman Wikipedia

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