Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Historian of "Humble Access" -- "The Greatest Curiosity": Race, Religion, and Politics in Henry Evans's Methodist Church, 1785-1858 -- Strangers in a Wilderness: Lorenzo Dow and John Taylor on the Religious Frontiers of the Early American Republic -- "Taking Up" Quaker Slaves: The Origins of America's Slavery Imperative -- Presbyterian Orthodoxy and the Dilemma of Pluralism: The Battle over Kentucky's Transylvania University, 1800-1830 -- Nat Turner and Signs of the Apocalypse -- "Neither Cult nor Charisma": William Miller and Leadership of New Religious Movements -- "Ladies, Arise! The World Has Need of You": The Widow Bumpass's Newspaper War -- Where Do We Go from Here?: Spiritualism and Eternity in 1850s Nashville -- Annie Wittenmyer and the Twilight of Evangelical Reform -- "All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge": Niijima Jōs Transpacific Crusade for a Christian Japan, 1871-73 -- Psychological and Historical Perspectives on the Denial of Death -- The Underground Railroad: Deus ex Machina -- Kentucky in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Bingham, Black Culture, and the Southern Gothic in Jazz Age London -- Nationalism, Marxism, and the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba -- Preachers and Politics: The Religious Issue in the North Carolina Presidential Campaign of 1960-A Footnote on Al Smith -- APPENDIX A: Dissertations Directed -- APPENDIX B: Select Bibliography of Donald G. Mathews's Writings, 1965-2015 -- Contributors -- 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.