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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

The Revival of 1857-58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening. By Kathryn Teresa Long. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 256 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-19-511293-8.)

Written as a "series of overlapping essays," The Revival of 1857-58 delineates two interrelated themes in the awakening's story. By means of the first, "the power of interpretation," Kathryn Teresa Long draws historians' attention to the ways in which contemporaries wrote the revival's history as it was occurring, defined its contours, and shaped later analysts' understanding of it. By means of the second, "revivalism without social reform," she revisits Timothy L. Smith's classic account, Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth Century America (1957), and directly challenges his argument. . . .

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