Christine Leigh Heyrman

American historian

Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American historian.

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.^[1] Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).^[2]

Awards

1998 Bancroft Prize
2016 Francis Parkman 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.

References

^ "University of Delaware - Department of History - Heyrman". www.udel.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-06-03.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2009-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)