Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ben Wright and Zachary W. Dresser
  • The prophecy of Edmund Ruffin : anticipating the future of Civil War history / Jason Phillips
  • Spirit politics : radical abolitionists and the dead end of spiritualism / Robert K. Nelson
  • "This flattering millennium theory" : denominationalism against millennialism in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater / Ryan Cordell
  • Millennialism and the Church of England's mission to fugitive slaves in Canada / Nina Reid-Maroney
  • Colonization and the limits of antislavery in Upcountry South Carolina / Joseph Moore
  • The great Indian pentecost : providential revisions, Indian evangelization, and the taking of the American West / Jennifer Graber
  • Providence revised : the southern Presbyterian old school in the Civil War and Reconstruction / Zachary W. Dresser
  • Emancipation and African American millennialism / Matthew Harper
  • A sharecropper's millennium : land and the perils of forgiveness in post Civil War South Carolina / Scott Nesbit
  • "Two divisions of the same great army" : ecclesiastical separation by race and the millennium / Charles F. Irons
  • "To doubt this would be to doubt God" : Reconstruction and the decline of providential confidence / Edward J. Blum.