Puritans and revolution: remembering the origin: religion and social critique in early New England / Wilson N. Brissett
The early republic: Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of history and the future of American Christianity / Johann N. Neem
The Romantic era: Emerson's churches of one / Matthew Mutter
The Civil War: redeemer president and warrior prophet: Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, and evangelical Protestantism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
After the Civil War: Auguste Comte's theory of history crosses the Atlantic / Andrew Witmer
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: mastery, modern doubt, and the costs of progress / Christopher McKnight Nichols
World War I and after: godlessness and the Scopes trial / Kevin M. Schultz
The thirties to the fifties: totalitarianism and the second American Enlightenment / David Ciepley
The sixties: secularization and the prophesies of freedom / Slavica Jakelić
The seventies and eighties: a reversal of fortunes / Joseph E. Davis and David Franz
From 11/9/1989 to 9/11/2001 and beyond: the return of Jeremiad and the specter of secularization / Joshua J. Yates
Conclusion: Prophesies, in retrospect and prospect / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes.