Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

A portrait of born-again Protestantism in New York City from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce, and real estate scarcity as one of the forces that shaped the New York City we know to...