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Jonathan J. Den Hartog

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Jonathan Den Hartog is professor of history at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He loves American history of all periods, but he has a special interest in the era of the American Revolution and the Early Republic. He is fascinated by the interplay of religion and politics in the Early Republic. This interest motivated him to write Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation.

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Average rating: 4.63 · 16 ratings · 3 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 by Carl H. Esbeck (Editor), Jonathan J. Den Hartog (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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New Semester, New Post

The Fall Semester is now 1 week old. Classes have all met several times.

With the new semester comes a new blog post, connected to one of my classes this semester.

In this post, I talk about a new book about Cotton Mather that I’ll be using to help students understand colonial New England Puritanism.

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Jonathan Den Hartog has read The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Thomas M. Nichols	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Read the 2nd edition, which is is updated for the post-covid era. Nichols, himself a learned expert, enters into the public debate to challenge readers to think about the interplay of expertise and citizenship.
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Vital reading for all American citizens.
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Jonathan Den Hartog rated a book it was amazing Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition by Calvin Coolidge	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a great edition of a really great presidential autobiography. I truly wish more Americans would read this and listen to Coolidge's sensible wisdom. ...more
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Jonathan Den Hartog rated a book it was amazing The January Dancer (Spiral Arm, #1) by Michael Flynn	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Flynn is under-appreciated, but I tremendously enjoy his fiction. This one is the best of the Spiral Arm series, but they are all well done. The January Dancer is comfort fiction for me--I will return to this story when I need some creative space adv ...more
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