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About John M. Barry

John M. Barry

John M. Barry is the author of the New York Times bestselling Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soult: Church, State , and the Birth of Liberty, The Great Influenza (about the worldwide flu epidemic in 1918) and the prizewinning history Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. He divides his time between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
Latest Posts | By John M. Barry
Roger Williams’s Opening Argument: Church, State and the Birth of Liberty
6 years ago

Roger Williams’s Opening Argument: Church, State and the Birth of Liberty

By  •  Biography, Roger Williams and His Times

The question of church and state is probably—not probably—is the oldest argument in American history. It was first articulated almost 400 years ago by John Winthrop, the most important figure …
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