Lambert, Frank

Presents a comprehensive history of America's conflict with Barbary pirates who, during 1784 and 1785, conducted a series of raids on American shipping, thus interfering with U.S. trade endeavors in the Mediterranean.

Includes information on the Algerine War (1815), Algiers Treaty (1795), Continental Congress, U.S. Congress, Stephen Decatur, Democratic-Republicans, William Eaton, Federalists, France, Benjamin Franklin, free trade, Great Britain, U.S. House of Representatives, Ali Hassan (dey of Algiers), Islam, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Yusuf Karamanli (bashaw of Tripoli), Koran, Tobias Lear, James Madison, mercantilism, Morocco Treaty, Navigation Acts, U.S. Navy, Netherlands, Richard O'Brien, Treaty of Paris, pirates, piracy, Portugal, Edward Preble, Sallee Rovers, U.S. Senate, slaves, slavery, Spain, Sweden, Tripoli, Tripoli Treaty, Tunis, war on terrorism, War of 1812, George Washington, etc.

Examines the role of religion in American politics and how the Constitution ensured that Christianity would not be the nation's official religion; and describes the relationship between the Republican Party and the Religious Right.

A study of the Great Awakening that swept New England in the eighteenth century, arguing that the religious revival was an invention of the colonists.

Explores how the United States became the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution.