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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880

2 reviews
William G. McLoughlin

The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Definitive history
The continuing story of the Cherokees after their arrival in present day Oklahoma. A story of the conflicts both within and outside of the Cherokee Nation. The story of how the Cherokees battled to maintain their sovereignty and ultimately failed. Meticulously researched by McLoughlin through primary sources, an excellent history for anyone interested in Native American or Cherokee history. ...

Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform (Chicago History of American Religion)

3 reviews
William G. McLoughlin

University Of Chicago Press, 1980

A Provocative Interpretation Worth Consideration
William McLoughlin was one of the most important scholars of American religious history during his long academic career. A Christian, he produced many seminal works on church and state relations, American evangelicalism, and 19th century missions. In this essay, which he wrote in the midst of the cultural turmoil of the early 1970s, he attempted to interpret the history of American culture ...

Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic

4 reviews
William G. McLoughlin

Princeton University Press, 1992

A gripping history
A comprehensive history of the Cherokees up to the Trail of Tears. This history covers the building of a great nation that was able to maintain its own culture while integrating with the developing America, and its subsequent downfall.

Lectures on Revivals of Religion (The John Harvard Library)

2 reviews
Charles Grandison Finney

Belknap Press, 1978

Very Powerful and Convicting, With Some Faulty Theology
These are powerful lectures on what constitutes a religious revival, how to encourage or promote a religious revival, and what can be done to maintain a revival experience in the life of the Christian and in the life of the church. Charles Finney understands a religious revival to be the work of man, when we renew our first love with Christ. A religious revival is a new beginning of obedience ...

Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham

1 review
William G. McLoughlin

Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005

A Must-own for every student of American Protestantism
It is a shame that this classic of American religion is not available for purchase. Every current scholar cites this as the authoritative text on the history of evangelical revivalism. McLoughlin is certainly no friend of many of his subjects, but his study is indispensable.

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