Hellfire nation: the politics of sin in American history

Us : the city on a hill

Them : heretic, heathen, and witch

The Puritans become America

The wrath of God in black and white

Abolition!

South : the pro-slavery argument

North : the ragged chorus of the Union

Purity and the woman's sphere

White slaves and the modern witch-hunt

Temperance : crucible of race and class

Prohibition and the rise of big government

The New Deal call to alms

Manifest destiny and the Cold War

The sixties

Modern morals.

Introduction : A nation with the soul of a church

pt. 1. The Puritan foundations of morality politics (1630-1776). Us : the city on a hill

Them : heretic, heathen, and witch

The Puritans become America

pt. 2. The abolitionist crusade (1800-1865). The wrath of God in Black and white

Abolition!

South : the pro-slavery argument

North : the ragged chorus of the Union

pt. 3. The Victorian quest for virtue (1870-1929). Purity and the woman's sphere

White slaves and the modern witch-hunt

Temperance : crucible of race and class

Prohibition and the rise of big government

pt. 4. The Social Gospel at high tide (1932-1973). The New Deal call to alms

Manifest destiny and the Cold War

The sixties

pt. 5. The Puritans roar again. Modern morals.