New York's Burned-over District

Spencer W. McBride is Associate Managing Historian of the Joseph Smith Papers. He is the author of Pulpit and Nation and Joseph Smith for President, and coeditor of Contingent Citizens.Jennifer Hull Dorsey is Professor of History and founding Director of Siena College's McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution. She is the author of Hirelings.

• IntroductionPart I: Settlement1. Treaty with the Six Nations2. A General View of New York3. New York Population Growth4. New York's Environmental TransformationPart II: Missionaries5. Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal6. Rev. Jacob Cram's Mission7. Sagoyewatha's Reply to Rev. Jacob Cram8. Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society9. Reports of Episcopal Missionaries10. Missionaries to Sailors and Canal WorkersPart III: Revivals11. Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals12. Revivals at Marcellus and Amber13. Report of New York Revivals14. Bradford King's Conversion15. Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion16. A Convention to Regulate Revivals17. Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath18. Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights19. The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and ReformPart IV: Church Development20. Brothertown and Religious Autonomy21. A Baptist Constitution22. Baptist Trustee Minutes23. Methodist Population Report24. Proposal for a Methodist College25. Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls26. The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva27. A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant28. Race and Ministry in Wayne CountyPart V: Kingdoms of God29. Joseph Smith's Visions30. Mormonism's Early Critics31. Parley P. Pratt Encounters the Book of Mormon32. William Miller's Biblical Calculations33. William Miller Defends His Prediction34. A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism35. Matthias the ProphetPart VI: Intentional Communities36. Shaker Charity37. The Church Family at Watervliet38. Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay39. Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet40. Shakers and the Education of Children41. A Shaker Hymn42. Complex Marriage43. John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks44. A Rebuttal of Noyes and PerfectionismPart VII: Religion and New York Politics45. Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career46. Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution47. An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence48. Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society49. A Sabbatarian Convention50. The Anti-rent Wars51. Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution52. Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for WomenPart VIII: Abolitionism and Ultraism in the Burned-over District53. Rev. Thomas James on Antislavery Activism54. New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism55. New York Methodists on Abolitionism56. Establishing an Antislavery Newspaper57. Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society58. Creating Antislavery Petitions59. How to Be an Abolitionist60. Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism61. The Jerry RescueConclusion: The Legacy of the Burned-over District

By focusing on documentary evidence rather than traditional narrative history, McBride and Dorsey allow an immersive... exploration of the period.(NYG&B Record)