Christine Leigh Heyrman

Christine Leigh Heyrman
Occupation	Historian writer
Nationality	American
Education	Macalester College Yale University (PhD)
Notable awards	Bancroft Prize (1998) Francis Parkman Prize (2016)

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
• Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. W W Norton & Co Inc. 1986. ISBN 978-0-393-95518-7.
• Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. Knopf. 1997. ISBN 978-0-679-44638-5.
• Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic. McGraw-Hill College. 2004. ISBN 978-0-07-299631-9. (6th ed., 2007)
• American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0-809-02398-1.

External links

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