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Religion\u2019s role in the founding and shaping of American life has been much-considered, studied and debated throughout U.S. history — but few are as qualified to provide insight into the topic as Baylor\u2019s Distinguished Professor of History, Dr. Thomas Kidd<\/a>. In the classroom, on bookshelves and in the media, students and non-students alike have learned from Kidd, who has become one of the nation\u2019s foremost experts on faith and the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n On campus, Kidd teaches classes on colonial America, the American Revolution and American religious history and serves as the associate director of Baylor\u2019s Institute for the Studies of Religion<\/a>. At Baylor, he says, he is able to balance teaching and research in a Christian environment — and through those dual threads, Kidd has brought to life early American leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry and George Whitefield in books, articles and interviews.<\/p>\n Kidd has won numerous awards for the nine books he\u2019s authored and edited. Last year, his spiritual biography of Franklin, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father<\/a><\/em>, was named one of the year’s top 10 religion and spirituality books<\/a> by the ALA’s Booklist Online. Two of Kidd’s other books on religion and early American history were also named among the best books of the year by\u00a0Christianity Today<\/em>:\u00a0God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution<\/a><\/em> in 2011, and\u00a0The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America<\/a><\/em> in 2008.<\/p>\n In the media, Kidd\u2019s expertise has been called upon by everyone from the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> to the\u00a0Washington Post<\/a><\/em>, from\u00a0Christianity Today<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0C-SPAN<\/a>, when reporters are looking for insight on both early American and modern figures and faith.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Dr. Kidd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Religion\u2019s role in the founding and shaping of American life has been much-considered, studied and debated throughout U.S. history — but few are as qualified to provide insight into the topic as Baylor\u2019s Distinguished Professor of History, Dr. Thomas Kidd. In the classroom, on bookshelves and in the media, students and non-students alike have learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}