Another point Wood emphasized, both during the lecture and the Q-and-A session that followed, was that it is hard to judge the morals of the early Americans retrospectively. Many founding fathers, ...

The Founding Fathers -- such as John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington -- knew their Hebrew Bible backwards and forwards, and several were familiar with ...

Read Andrew Roberts’s complete remarks delivered during the seventh annual Circle Lecture in the November issue of The New Criterion. Join the Circle of The New ...

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers: An Introduction; PART I: The Bible and Culture; 2. The English ...