The new issue of History Now focuses on religion in colonial America. It features four articles by scholars on the Puritans and dissenters, early Jewish settlers, Pennsylvania Quakers, and Thomas Jefferson's deism. The issue highlights the important role of religion in colonial lives and America's resulting multicultural heritage. It also provides podcasts and other resources on religion in colonial America available on the Gilder Lehrman Institute website.

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Issue 29, September 2011: Religion in the Colonial World
The Institute is pleased to present the latest issue of History Now, a quarterly online journal for history
teachers and students, available at www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow.
In this issue, four leading scholars provide a closer look at the religious beliefs and institutions that played
major roles in the lives of colonial America’s women and men, and in doing so highlight one of the critical
characteristics of our nation: its multicultural heritage.
Click on the links below for each feature:
The Puritans and Dissent: The Cases of Roger Williams
From the Editor
and Anne Hutchinson
by Francis J. Bremer
Early America’s Jewish Settlers
Lesson Plans for high school, middle by Eli Faber
school and elementary school classrooms
The Origins and Legacy of the Pennsylvania Quakers
Illustrating U.S. History in the by Barry Levy
Classroom, by Bruce Lesh and Philip
Nicolosi Thomas Jefferson and Deism
by Peter S. Onuf
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RELIGION IN THE COLONIAL
WORLD PODCASTS
The Gilder Lehrman website has several lectures
available on the topic of Religion in Colonial America,
Suggested Reading including John Demos: “Religion and Witchcraft in
Colonial America” and Kevin Phillips: “Religion and
Q & A Feature
Politics in the Founding Era.”
To listen, visit
www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts
All previous issues of History Now are
available here
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