{{short description|American historian (born 1971)}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Thomas S. Kidd | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | residence = | spouse = | partner = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | alma_mater = {{ubl | Clemson University | University of Notre Dame}} | thesis_title = From Puritan to Evangelical : Changing Culture in New England, 1689-1740 | thesis_year = 2001 | thesis_url = https://onesearch.library.nd.edu/permalink/f/1phik6l/ndu_aleph001843379 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = George Marsden | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = History | sub_discipline = {{hlist | American history | ecclesiastical history}} | workplaces = {{ubl | Baylor University | Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary}} | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = 18th-century North American evangelicalism | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Thomas S. Kidd''' (born 1971) is an American historian of religion who is John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies at Baylor University,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas S. Kidd |url=https://www.mbts.edu/profile/thomas-s-kidd/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2004100147/ |title=Kidd, Thomas S. |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=April 22, 2017}}</ref> and Research Professor of Church History at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbts.edu/2019/05/historian-thomas-s-kidd-joins-midwestern-seminary-faculty-as-distinguished-professor/|title=Historian Thomas S. Kidd Joins Midwestern Seminary Faculty as Distinguished Professor|date=May 23, 2019|publisher=Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary|language=en|access-date=2019-05-23}}</ref> Before becoming a professor, Kidd studied at the University of Notre Dame. He is a notable historian and author of such books as ''George Whitefield'', a biography on the 18th-century Anglo-American preacher. Kidd credits George Whitefield as being "profoundly influential on the American nation's founding."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-george-whitefield-by-thomas-s-kidd-1423863426|title=America's Spiritual Founding Father|last=Swaim|first=Barton|date=February 13, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|location=New York|access-date=2017-08-01|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
==Books== *{{Cite book | last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |title=American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780691186191 |location=Princeton}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution |publisher=Basic Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-465-02277-9 |location=New York}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots |publisher=Basic Books |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-465-02810-8 |location=New York}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2014 |isbn=9780300182125 |location=New Haven}} *{{Cite book |last1= Kidd |last2= Hankins |first1= Thomas S. |first2= Barry |author1-mask=3 |title=Baptists in America: A History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780199977536}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=America's Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation |publisher=Zondervan Academic |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-310-58617-3 |location=Grand Rapids}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=American History, Combined Edition: 1492 - Present |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |year=2019 | isbn=9781535982252}} *{{Cite book |last=Kidd |first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh |publisher=Yale University Press| year=2022| isbn=978-0-300-25006-0 |location=New Haven}}
===Articles and chapters=== *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title="Is It Worse to Follow Mahomet than the Devil?" Early American Uses of Islam |journal=Church History |volume=72 |issue=4 |date=2003 |pages=766–790 |doi=10.1017/S0009640700097377 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title="Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst": World News, Anti-Catholicism, and International Protestantism in Early-Eighteenth-Century Boston |journal=The New England Quarterly |volume=76 |issue=2 |date=2003 |pages=265–290 |doi=10.2307/1559905 |jstor=1559905 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Recovering "The French Convert": Views of the French and the Uses of Anti-Catholicism in Early America |journal=Book History |volume=7 |issue=1 |date=2004 |pages=97–111 |doi=10.1353/bh.2004.0018 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Conference Review: The Edwards at 300 Symposium and the Future of Jonathan Edwards Studies |journal=Early American Literature |volume=39 |issue=2 |date=2004 |pages=405 |doi=10.1353/eal.2004.0030 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title="THE VERY VITAL BREATH OF CHRISTIANITY": Prayer and Revival in Provincial New England |journal=Fides et historia |volume=36 |issue=2 |date=2004 |pages=19– }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Healing of Mercy Wheeler: Illness and Miracles among Early American Evangelicals |journal=The William and Mary Quarterly |volume=63 |issue=1 |date=2006 |pages=149–170 |doi=10.2307/3491729 |jstor=3491729 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Lauren F. Winner, A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia |journal=Fides et Historia |volume=43 |issue=2 |date=2011 |pages=151 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word by Peter Charles Hoffer (review) |journal=Pennsylvania History |volume=80 |issue=4 |date=2013 |pages=549–551 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=The Bebbington quadrilateral and the work of the holy spirit |journal=Fides et Historia |volume=47 |issue=1 |date=2015 |pages=54 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Christ in college |journal=First Things |volume= |issue=265 |date=2016 |pages=8 }} *{{cite journal |author1-last=Kidd |author1-first=Thomas S. |author1-mask=3 |title=Nothingarians: The Fear of the Unchurched in Early National America |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |volume=43 |issue=2 |date=2023 |pages=269–299 |doi=10.1353/jer.2023.a897986 }}
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