A City Upon a Hill

“Witham’s highly readable history of the American sermon strongly bolsters the contention that words change minds and alter the course of events.” — Booklist Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation’s greatest orators . From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts and blacklists, but they have also stirred activists in the women’s and