Americans have translated, interpreted, applied, and wrestled with the Bible from colonial times to the 21st century

Learn more about the history of the Bible in America with these resources selected by Christian History’s authors and editors.

Questions to help you think more deeply about this issue

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Notable Americans drew inspiration from the Bible

The Bible has often starred at the box office

How American authors, believers and unbelievers alike, used the Bible in their work

Elias Boudinot and his friends worked not only to begin a new nation but also to start the American Bible Society

The Bible in Black Christian movements for liberation

Bible towns, Bible songs, Bible novels, and pocket Bibles

Seeking biblical liberty from vice and bondage

Both sides in the civil war appealed to the Bible

The Bible of the early American Republic

 Biblical references in some famous American speeches

The Bible and “Christian America”

Life was saturated with references to God and to scriptural metaphors.

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