John Fea

John Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, PA. He is the author of *The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in America* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), *Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation* (Notre Dame University Press, 2010); *Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction* (Westminster/John Knox Press, Feb. 2011, revised ed. Sept. 2016); Why Study History: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past* (Baker, 2014); The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society (Oxford, 2016); and, most recently *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump (Eerdmans, 2018). He blogs daily at www.thewayofimprovement.com