Author Archives: Andrew E. Harrod

Andrew E. Harrod is an independent researcher and writer who has published over 500 articles online and in print. His writings have appeared at the American Spectator, American Thinker, Breitbart, the Capital Research Center, the Daily Caller, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, Independent Journalism Review, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Jihad Watch, the Washington Times, World, and many others. He holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a law degree from the George Washington University Law School. He can be followed on Facebook and on Twitter at @AEHarrod.

Faith, freedom, and America’s founding Catholics

America’s “sweet land of liberty” of “pilgrims’ pride” and Plymouth Rock has historically had a Protestant-majority understanding of “our father’s God.” But Catholics also revered this “author of liberty.” These “noble free” made leading contributions to “freedom’s holy light” in the American Revolution, as Dan LeRoy reveals in an important new book.