Contents -- Introduction -- I. The History in a Hymn -- 1. "Amazing Grace": The History of a Hymn and a Cultural Icon -- 2. The Methodist National Anthem: "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" and the Development of American Methodism -- 3. "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name": Signficant Variations on a Significant Theme -- II. Hymns and Hymnbooks as Cultural Icons -- 4. Textual Editing and the "Making" of Hymns in Nineteenth-Century America -- 5. Textual Changes in Popular Occasional Hymns Found in American Evangelical Hymnals -- 6. Indices: More Than Meets the I -- 7. Fanny Crosby, William Doane, and the Making of Gospel Hymns in the Late Nineteenth Century -- III. Understanding the Classical Era of American Protestantism through Hymns -- 8. Heritage and Hymnody: Richard Allen and the Making of African Methodism -- 9. Singing Pilgrims: Hymn Narratives of a Pilgrim Community's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, 1830-1890 -- 10. Children of the Heavenly King: Hymns in the Religious and Social Experience of Children, 1780-1850 -- 11. Domesticity in American Hymns, 1820-1870 -- Contributors -- Index.