Christine Leigh Heyrman

NationalityAmericanEducationMacalester College
Yale University (PhD)Notable awardsBancroft Prize (1998)
Francis Parkman Prize (2016)

Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American historian.

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.^[1] Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).^[2]

• 1998 Bancroft Prize
• 2016 Francis Parkman Prize

• 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.

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