A readable, broad history of this multi-regional and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination. The book covers Protestant involvement in critical issues from temperance to the civil rights movement, the establishment of Protestant organizations such as the American Bible Society and the Salvation Army, and the significant expansion of their ethnic base since the first African-American Protestant churches were built in the 1770s. Mark Noll follows the Protestants' impact on American history -- from the founding the Massachusetts Bay colony to the present day -- and peppers his account with profiles of leading Protestants from Jonathan Edwards to Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr.