Thomas Kidd is associate professor of history at Baylor University. His book, The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America, was published by Yale in 2007. He also published The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents, with Bedford Books in 2007. Another book, American Christians and Islam, is to be published by Princeton University Press in 2008. He is also writing A Christian Sparta: Evangelicals, Deists, and the Creation of the American Republic, and Patrick Henry: A Biography, both to be published by Basic Books. Kidd teaches courses on colonial America, the American Revolution, and American religious history. He was selected for the 2004-05 Young Scholars in American Religion program, won a 2006-07 NEH Fellowship, and won a 2004 NEH Summer Stipend. Kidd came to Baylor University in 2002 after completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with the historian of religion George Marsden. He received a B.A. and M.A. at Clemson University. He and his wife Ruby have two sons, Jonathan and Joshua.
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