Glenn C. Altschuler is Vice President for University Relations, Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. His books include, as coauthor, The 100 Most Notable Cornellians (also from Cornell) The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans and Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the 19th Century, and, as author, Andrew D. White: Educator, Historian, Diplomat. Jan M. Saltzgaber is Professor Emeritus of History at Ithaca College.
This book demonstrates how well a case study in local history can
explore and illuminate regional and national issues.... It is a
small classic as it explores the struggle to establish community
stability and personal trust as the foundation for American society
when it was dominated by churches, moral agencies, and the
voluntary tradition.
*Church History*
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of
nineteenth-century America religion in social and political
life.... It is an important one for feminist, religious, social,
and political historians, and for theologians. After reading it,
the categories no longer seem so convincingly separate. Local
history can cast light on cosmic questions.
*The Heythrop Journal*
This is a concise, well-written book that pulls the reader into the
drama of Rhonda Bement's trial as well as into the larger issues at
stake. This book is not only an important interpretive work but a
model of how such interpretation should be done.
*Choice*
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