Inventing a Nation: The Founders, Religion, and Separation of Church and State
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Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, continued his four lecture series entitled “Inventing a Nation” with his third lecture exploring the founders of the Constitution, their religion, and the separation of church and state in America.
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