Christine Leigh Heyrman

Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American historian.

Life

She graduated from Macalester College in 1971, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1977. She is Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).

Awards

• 1998 Bancroft Prize
• 2016 Francis Parkman Prize

Works

• Heyrman, Christine Leigh. “The Separation of Church and State from the American Revolution to the Early Republic.” Divining America, National Humanities Center
• (6th ed., 2007)
• American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. .

References

External links

• "Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e', online learning center