The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes

Introduction: earthquake cracks

A great commotion: the experience of the New Madrid earthquakes

Earthquakes and the end of the New Madrid hinterland

Revival and resistance: earthquakes on native ground

The quaking body: sensation, electricity, and religious revival

Vernacular science: knowing earthquakes in the early United States

Sunk lands and submerged knowledge: how war, swamps, and seismographs hid evidence of the New Madrid earthquakes

The science of deep history: old accounts and modern science of New Madrid

Conclusion: memory and earth in the Mississippi Valley.