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Scholars of early American history commonly note that most families of that time were likely to own only two books, if they were privileged to own books at all: a Bible and an almanac. Almanacs were stitched pamphlets, published annually, that offered readers a one-stop resource for purposes of practical living, entertainment, and moral education. Each included a calendar, times of sunrise and sunset, notices of astrological events, and sundry poetry, pious tales, jokes, recipes, and medical and agricultural advice. Despite their prevalence, almanacs remain early America’s most understudied form of print media. In A Divinity for All Persuasions, T. J. Tomlin remedies this neglect with an immensely useful and comprehensive analysis of the genre, focusing on almanacs published in British North America between 1730 and 1820.