Abstract
Jacob Green’s Revolution is the latest offering in a recent surge of scholarship reassessing the relationship between religion and the American Revolution. Independent historian Scott Rohrer’s book is part biography and part microhistory, telling the story of Presbyterian minister Jacob Green and the important role he played in revolutionary-era politics and reform efforts in northern New Jersey. The book’s argument is straightforward: Edwardsean Calvinism was an important source of “revolutionary energy” in the mid-Atlantic, propelling Jacob Green to support the rebelling colonists’ cause and producing “a strong reform drive during the American Revolution”.