EBOOK Work We Have to Do:A History of Protestants in America

A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and        multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and        ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins        of American Protestants all the way back to the first English colony at Jamestown.          The book covers their involvement in critical issues from temperance to the civil        rights movement, the establishment of Protestant organizations like the American        Bible Society and the Salvation Army, and the significant expansion of their ethnic        base since the first African-American Protestant churches were built in the 1770s.          Mark Noll follows their direct impact on American history--from the American        Revolution to World War I and beyond--and peppers his account with profiles of        leading Protestants, from Jonathan Edwards and Phillis Wheatley to Billy Graham and        Martin Luther King, Jr.