Barry Alan Shain

Biographic Data

ID231827
NAMEBarry Alan Shain
GIVEN NAMESBarry Alan
FAMILY NAMEShain
SIGNATURESHAIN B A
AFFILIATIONSColgate University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • America’s Dominant Founding Narratives, Once Again Being Challenged

    Barry Alan ShainARTICLEAmerican Political Thought2025References: 4

  • The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics

    Open AccessBarry Alan Shain, Barry ShainARTICLEJournal of Church and State2024

    Journal Article The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding. By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer Get access The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding. By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 238pp. $34.99 paper. Barry Shain Barry Shain Colgate …

  • America's Revolutionary Mind

    Open AccessBarry Alan ShainARTICLEJournal of American History2021Cited by: 3

    In this supremely ambitious book, C. Bradley Thompson offers a work that he believes provides a comprehensive view of the “American mind” at the time of the American Revolution while also creating a “new moral history” to replace the dated histories of the revolutionary era by Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood (pp. 5, 6). For Thompson, this is an unapologetic culmination of a “lifelong love affair” with “the story of the American Revolution and the …

  • J. P atrick M ullins . Father of Liberty

    Open AccessBarry Alan ShainARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    In Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution, J. Patrick Mullins boldly argues that Jonathan Mayhew “was the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the intellectual progenitor of the American Revolution” (ix), and, as such, Mayhew deserves attention from scholars and, still more so, from Americans who “would do well to recover the principles, character, and example of Jonath…

  • American Founding Narratives, Monarchy, and Republicanism

    Barry Alan ShainARTICLEEarly American literature2018Cited by: 1

    Most of these works argue that the American consensus narrative of an effortless and intentional democratic founding is an incomplete story and, in many ways, an errant one. Three of the works argue that a significant part of the founding elite continued to hold, into the 1780s, a high regard for governments like Britain's limited monarchy-some of whose institutions, especially concerning the upper legislative house and executive-they sought in p…

  • Faith and the Founders of the American Republic

    Barry Alan ShainARTICLEJournal of Church and State2015

    Journal Article Faith and the Founders of the American Republic Get access Faith and the Founders of the American Republic. Edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 366pp. $39.95 paper. Barry Alan Shain Barry Alan Shain Colgate UniversityHamilton, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 57, Issue 4, A…

  • American Work Values

    Barry Alan Shain, Paul Bernstein et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Making the American Self

    Barry Alan Shain, Daniel Walker HoweARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. By Daniel Walker Howe. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. x, 342 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-16555-1) Get access Barry Alan Shain Barry Alan Shain Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568488 P…

  • The Myth of American Individualism

    Ruth H Bloch, Barry Alan ShainARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought. By Barry Alan Shain. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xx, 394 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-691-03382-X.) Get access Ruth H. Bloch Ruth H. Bloch University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 182–183,…

  • The Myth of American Individualism

    Michael P Zuckert, Michael Zuckert et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

  • The Myth of American Individualism

    Philip Gould, P L Gould et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1995

  • Thomas Paine

    Barry Alan Shain, Jack Fruchtman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

  • The Myth of American Individualism

    Barry Alan ShainBOOKMyth of American Individualism1994Cited by: 17

    1Standing: The Public Good, the Individual, and the CommunityCh. 1Three Discourses in Defense of the Public Good23Ch. 2A Sketch of 18th-Century American Communalism48Ch. 3Localism and the Myth of American Individualism84Ch. 4Three Leading Views of the Individual, Plus One116Pt. 2The Meaning of Liberty in the Revolutionary EraCh. 5A Delusive Similarity: (Ordered) Liberty and Freedom155Ch. 6Spiritual Liberty: The Quintessential Liberty193Ch. 7Corpo…

  • The Foundations of American Citizenship

    Barry Alan ShainARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1993Cited by: 1