1. Interpreting religion in America
The recovery of American religious history / Henry E. May
Rediscovery : discerning religious America / Martin E. Marty
History texts and Why is there so little religion in the textbooks? / Warren A. Nord
2. Religion in early America
Black women and religion in the colonial period / Lillian Ashcraft Webb
Exposing idolatry of the Romish church : anti-popery and colonial New England / Frances D. Cogliano
Saints and sisters : Congregational and Quaker women in the early colonial period / Mary Maples Dunn
3. The era of the Great Awakening
The Great Awakening : revelation and reason / Cedric Cowing
The Great Awakening as subversion and conspiracy / David S. Lovejoy
Women and revivalism : the Puritan and Wesleyan traditions / Martha T. Blauvelt and Rosemary Skinner Keller
4. Religious America in the American Revolution
Visions of a republican millennium : an ideology of civil religion in ther new nation / Nathan O. Hatch
A revolutionary millennium?? Jon Butler
The American Revolution and the religious history of the United States / Mark Noll
5. American religion in the middle period
The promise of the millennium / Steven Mintz
Charles G. Finney / Robert R. Mathisen
Evangelical America and early Mormonism / Gordon S. Wood
6. American religion in the antebellum frontier West
The heritage of the popular denominations / T. Scott Miyakawa
Religion and spirituality / Ferenc M. Szasz and Margaret Connell Szasz
Temples in the forest / Robert E. Berkhofer, Jr.
7. Slavery and American religion
Religious life in the slave community / Albert J. Raboteau
Antislavery and the evangelical movement / Bertram Wyatt-Brown
8. Religion and America's Civil War
Religion, the origins of Southern nationalism, and the coming of the Civil War / Mitchell Snay
Yankee Protestants and the Civil War : from confusion to crusade Christian soldiers : the meaning of revivalism in the Confederate Army / Drew Gilpin Faust
9. Religion & science in confrontation
The ape in the tree of knowledge / Paul A. Carter
The intellectual crisis of belief / James Turner
10. Religion in industrializing America
American Protestantism at a crossroads / Susan Curtis
Toward a Social Gospel / Jay P. Dolan
'The future golden day of the race' : millennialism and Black Americans in the Nadir, 1877-1901 / Timothy E. Fulop
11. Religion and American empire building
The Christian conquest of the world, 1890-1920 / Robert T. Handy
God's mission America's / William R. Hutchinson
Women missionaries and cultural conquest / Jane Hunter
12. Fundamentalism vs. modernism
Tremors of controversy / George M. Marsden
Introduction in Controversy in the twenties / William B. Gatewood, Jr.
The fundamentalist-modernist controversy, 1918-1930 / Ferenc M. Szasz
13. American religious ferment during the Depression era
Searching for power / Alan Brinkley
Transitions in Judaism : the Jewish American woman through the 1930s / Norma Fain Pratt
A thriving popular movement / Joel A. Carpenter
14. American religion from World War II to Vietnam
Pluralism, democracy, and catholicism in the era of World War II / Philip Gleason
Winning ordination for women in mainstream Protestant churches / Barbara Brown Zikmund
The rise of the 'New Evangelicalism' / Mark Silk
15. Religion and the civil rights movement
The origins of activism, 1950-1963 / James J. Findlay, Jr.
The civil rights movement and the soul of America / Adam Fairclough
High priest of the anti-civil rights movement : the calling of Sam Bowers / Charles Marsh
16. Religion and the search for American stability
The traumatic years : American religion and culture in the '60s and '70s / Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Toward religious realignment / Robert Wuthnow
Confused and helpless / Thomas C. Reeves.