Table of Contents -- Part One. The Faith of the Young Republic -- Dynamic Democracy -- COLONIAL BEGINNINGS -- IN THE NEW STATES -- CONSERVATIVE REACTION -- THE CONSTITUTION -- JEFFERSONIAN REVOLUTION -- ROLE OF THE FRONTIER -- JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY -- Evangelical Religion -- JONATHAN EDWARDS -- RATIONALISM AND RELIGION -- RELIGION IN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGES -- MISSIONARY SOCIETIES -- RELIGION ON THE FRONTIER -- CAMP-MEETING REVIVALISM -- OBSERVERS AND CRITICS -- Part Two. Cults and Utopias -- Transcendentalism -- TRANSCENDENTAL FAITH -- TRANSCENDENTAL CLUB -- BRONSON ALCOTT -- MARGARET FULLER -- EMERSON -- THOREAU -- THEODORE PARKER -- ORESTES BROWNSON -- WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING -- Millennialism and Spiritualism -- MILLERITE MILLENNIALISM -- THE MILLENNIAL YEAR -- SPIRITUALISM -- ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS -- THE FOX SISTERS -- The Stake in Zion -- EARLY LIFE OF JOSEPH SMITH -- THE BOOK OF MORMON -- THE MORMON CHURCH -- LATTER DAY SAINTS IN OHIO -- DIFFICULTIES IN OHIO AND MISSOURI -- JOSEPH SMITH IN ILLINOIS -- Religious Communism in America -- REASONS FOR COMMUNISTIC ORGANIZATION -- EPHRATA CLOISTER -- JEMIMA WILKINSON -- RAPPITES -- BETHEL AND AURORA -- SEPARATISTS OF ZOAR -- AMANA SOCIETY -- ERIC JANSON AND BISHOP HILL -- NORDHOFF'S CONCLUSIONS -- The Shaker Communities -- ENGLISH ORIGINS -- MOTHER ANN IN AMERICA -- EXPANSION OF SHAKERISM -- DOCTRINE -- ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT -- WAY OF LIFE -- ORDER OF WORSHIP -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- American Utopias of Religious Origin -- HOPEDALE COMMUNITY -- "TRANSCENDENTAL WILD OATS" -- BROOK FARM -- ONEIDA COMMUNITY -- Utopian Socialism in America -- ROBERT OWEN AND NEW HARMONY -- FRANCES WRIGHT AND NASHOBA -- STATUS OF AMERICAN LABOR -- FOURIERIST PHALANXES -- ETIENNE CABET AND ICARIA -- Part Three. Humanitarian Crusades -- Education and the American Faith -- IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMON SCHOOL.

VOICE OF THE OPPOSITION -- PRIVATE SCHOOLS -- PROGRESSIVE SCHOOLS -- EDUCATION OF WOMEN -- PROGRESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- AIDS TO EDUCATION -- Reform for the Criminal -- PENAL CODES BEFORE 1815 -- MOVEMENT FOR PRISON REFORM -- RIVAL SYSTEMS -- IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT -- Wards of the State -- CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- POOR RELIEF -- EDUCATION OF DEAF-MUTES AND THE BLIND -- CARE OF THE INSANE -- The Temperance Crusade -- DRINKING HABITS -- PROTESTS AGAINST INTEMPERANCE -- WORK OF BENJAMIN RUSH -- ORIGINS OF THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE -- DECADE OF PROGRESS -- ULTRAISM VERSUS TEMPERANCE -- ARGUMENTS FOR ABSTINENCE -- OPPONENTS OF COERCION -- WASHINGTONIAN MOVEMENT -- INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT -- MAINE LAW -- Denials of Democratic Principles -- ANTIMASONIC MOVEMENT -- CATHOLICISM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC -- INCEPTION OF ANTI-CATHOLICISM -- ANTI-CATHOLIC LITERATURE OF THE 1830'S -- PROPAGANDA PRESS AND DEBATES -- ANTI-CATHOLIC SOCIETIES AND DEMONSTRATIONS -- IMMORALITY MOTIF -- IMMIGRATION AND NATIVISM -- ISSUES OF THE 1840's -- PROPAGANDA TACTICS AFTER 1840 -- NATIVISM OF THE EARLY l850's -- POLITICAL NATIVISM -- The Crusade for Peace -- EARLY ANTIWAR SENTIMENT -- INITIATION OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT -- AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY -- PEACE LITERATURE -- OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE WARS -- NONRESISTANCE MOVEMENT -- THE MEXICAN WAR -- INTERNATIONAL PEACE CRUSADE -- ELIHU BURRITT -- The Rights of Women -- STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE YOUNG REPUBLIC -- PIONEERS IN THE PROFESSIONS -- WRITERS AND EDITORS -- HEALTH AND DRESS -- IN COMMUNISTIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS -- IN THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT -- IN THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT -- SUPPORT FROM THE LIBERALS -- WOMEN ORGANIZE -- Like a Fire-bell in the Night -- PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ANTISLAVERY SENTIMENT -- SLAVERY AND NATURAL RIGHTS -- SLAVERY AND THE CONSTITUTION -- "THE NEGLECTED PERIOD" -- MISSOURI COMPROMISE -- SOUTHERN THEORY.

AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY -- GROWTH OF ABOLITIONISM -- DAVID WALKER, THE LIBERATOR, AND NAT TURNER -- ANTISLAVERY DOCTRINE AND THE AMERICAN FAITH -- ORGANIZATION OF THE MOVEMENT -- NORTHERN RECEPTION OF AGITATION -- OPPOSITION IN THE NORTH -- DENIAL OF FREE SPEECH IN THE NORTH -- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND SLAVERY -- RIGHT OF PETITION -- A House Divided -- PROSLAVERY ARGUMENT -- DIVISION IN THE CHURCHES -- FREEDOM OF PRESS AND SPEECH IN THE SOUTH -- SOUTHERN CULTURE -- UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - NORTH -- UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - SOUTH -- FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW -- TOWARD SECESSION -- POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE ROAD TO WAR -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.