John Fea teaches history at Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, and is author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox).
Articles by John Fea
Books
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin stands alongside Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Frederick Douglass's Narrative as an American classic. Any liberally educated person needs to know something about Eliza, Uncle Tom, Eva and the notorious Simon Legree.
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