David Sehat

David Sehat is an American academic. He is a professor of American intellectual and cultural history at Georgia State University.^[1] He was the 2017-18 John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere American Institute and Balliol College, Oxford.^[2] He is the author of three books. He won the Organization of American Historians's 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for The Myth of American Religious Freedom.^[3]

David Sehat
Occupation	Historian
Employer	Georgia State University

Works

• Sehat, David. (2007) "The civilizing mission of Booker T. Washington." The Journal of Southern History 73.2 (2007): 323-362. online
• Sehat, David. (2007) "The American moral establishment: Religion and liberalism in the nineteenth century'" (PhD dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007) online
• Sehat, David. (2008) "Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch" The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7.3 (2008): 325-352.

• Sehat, David (2011). The Myth of American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190247218. OCLC 925843779.
• Sehat, David (2015). The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781476779782. OCLC 913337448.
• Sehat, David. "Thomas Jefferson and Us." The William and Mary Quarterly 74.4 (2017): 771-776.

• Sehat, David. (2020) "Political atheism: the secularization and liberalization of American public life." Modern Intellectual History 17.1 (2020): 249-277. online

• Sehat, David (2022). This Earthly Frame: The Making of American Secularism. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300265620. OCLC 1291318008. online