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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: How to Think Historically | |
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| The Search for a Usable Past | |
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| What Do Historians Do? | |
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| The United States is a Christian Nation: The History of an Idea | |
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| Evangelical America, 1789-1865 | |
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| Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic | |
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| The Election of 1800 | |
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| Whig Christian Nationalism | |
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| A Christian Nation in Print | |
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| Christian Nationalism in the Civil War North | |
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| Christian Nationalism and the Confederate States of America | |
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| Evangelicals, Liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925 | |
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| A Christian Amendment to the Constitution | |
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| An Evangelical Alliance: 1873 | |
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| Fundamentalism and Christian Civilization | |
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| Liberal Protestantism and Christian America | |
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| The Supreme Court and the Church of the Holy Trinity Case | |
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| Christian America in a Modern Age, 1925-1980 | |
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| The Persistence of the Evangelical Pursuit of a Christian Nation | |
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| Mainline Protestantism and Christian America | |
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| Catholic Resurgence | |
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| The Revival of Christian America: The 1950s | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision for a Christian Nation | |
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| The Religious Right and Christian Nationalism | |
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| History for the Faithful: The Contemporary Defenders of Christian America | |
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| Providence | |
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| Christian Whig History | |
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| The Founders and Christian Belief | |
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| Religion and the Constitution | |
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| Revisionism | |
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| Suggested Reading for Part One | |
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| Was the American Revolution A Christian Event? | |
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| Were the British Colonies Christian Societies? | |
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| "Planting" versus "Founding" | |
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| Jamestown | |
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| Massachusetts Bay | |
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| Christianity and the Coming of the American Revolution | |
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| A Snapshot of the British-American Colonies in 1763 | |
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| The Stamp Act Crisis-1765 | |
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| The Stamp Act Crisis-1765 | |
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| The Townshend Duties | |
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| The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party | |
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| The Coercive Acts | |
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| The First Continental Congress | |
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| The Revolutionary Pulpit | |
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| Whig Sermons | |
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| A Biblical Argument for Revolution | |
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| Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 | |
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| The Revolution as a "Just War" | |
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| Nature's God: Is the Declaration of Independence a Christian Document? | |
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| Religion and the Continental Congress | |
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| The Declaration of Independence and "Original Intent" | |
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| God and the Declaration of Independence | |
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| Religion in the Critical Period | |
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| Religion and the Articles of Confederation | |
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| Virginia and the Quest for Religious Liberty | |
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| Massachusetts and Religious Establishment | |
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| Other States | |
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| A "Godless Constitution"? | |
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| The "Need" for a Constitution | |
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| Religion and the Constitution | |
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| Slavery and the Constitution | |
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| The Federalist | |
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| God and the Ratification Debate | |
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| Religion and the States: The "Federalist" Interpretation of the Constitution | |
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| Religion and the First Amendment | |
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| A Wall of Separation between Church and State? | |
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| Suggested Reading for Part Two | |
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| The Religious Beliefs of the Founders | |
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| Did George Washington Pray at Valley Forge? | |
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| Providence | |
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| Church Involvement | |
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| Washington's Beliefs | |
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| Washington's Faith in Practice | |
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| Communion | |
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| Morality, Ethics, and Public Religion | |
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| Religious Freedom | |
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| John Adams: Devout Unitarian | |
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| Adams and Christian Orthodoxy | |
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| Clergy, Catholics, and Calvinists | |
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| Religion, America, and the Public Good | |
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| Thomas Jefferson: Follower of Jesus | |
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| The Intelligent Creator | |
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| Follower of Jesus | |
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| Jefferson and His Bibles | |
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| Religious Freedom | |
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| The Dilemma of Slavery | |
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| Benjamin Franklin: Ambitious Moralist | |
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| A Puritan Childhood | |
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| Was Franklin a Deist? | |
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| A Religion of Virtue | |
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| Franklin's Failures | |
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| The Religion of the American Dream | |
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| What about Witherspoon? Three Orthodox Founders | |
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| John Witherspoon: Presbyterian Patriot | |
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| John Jay: Christian Providentialist | |
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| Samuel Adams: Puritan Republican | |
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| Suggested Reading for Part Three | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |