Christine Leigh Heyrman

Christine Leigh Heyrman
Occupation	Historian writer
Nationality	American
Education	Macalester College Yale University (PhD)
Notable awards	Bancroft Prize (1998) Francis Parkman Prize (2016)

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

1. "University of Delaware - Department of History - Heyrman". www.udel.edu. Archived from the original on June 3, 2006.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2009.

External links

• "Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e', online learning center
• Appearances on C-SPAN