American Enlightenment Reading List

American Enlightenment

Commager, Henry Steele. The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and 

America Realized the Enlightenment New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.

Ferguson, Robert A. The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820 Cambridge: Harvard 

University Press, 1994

Hall, David D. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in 

Early New England New York: Knopf, 1989.

Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind: from the Great Awakening to the Revolution Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. 

Hunt, Lynn, Margaret C. Jacob and Wijnand Mijnhardt, The Book That Changed 

Europe: Picart and Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)

                                             Lynn Hunt: Why She Became A Historian? 

Landsman, Ned C. From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 

1680-1760 New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

Landsman, Ned C. Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British 

North America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

May, Henry Farnham. The Enlightenment in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976) 

Noll, Mark A. Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822: The Search for a Christian 

Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)

Porter, Roy. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British 

Enlightenment (New York: WW Norton, 2000)

Reid-Maroney, Nina. Philadelphia’s Enlightenment, 1740-1800: Kingdom of Christ,

Empire of Reason Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001.