Introduction

Nathan O. Hatch

John H. Wigger

The Puzzle of American Methodism

Nathan O. Hatch

Methodist Growth in Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1770-1850

David Hempton

Fighting Bees: Methodist Itinerants and the Dynamics of Methodist Growth, 1770-1820

John H. Wigger

Female Evangelism in the Early Methodist Movement, 1784-1845

Catherine A. Brekus

``...many of the poor Affricans are obedient to the faith'' Reassessing the African American Presence in Early Methodism in the United States, 1769-1809

Will Gravely

The Formation of American Methodism: The Chesapeake Refraction of Wesleyanism

Russell E. Richey

``To Extract Poison from the Blessings of God's Providence'' Producerist Respectability and Methodist Suspicions of Capitalist Change in the Early Republic

William R. Sutton

The Methodist Invasion of Congregational New England

Richard D. Shiels

Consecrated Respectability: Phoebe Palmer and the Refinement of American Methodism

Kathryn T. Long

Methodists, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War

Richard J. Carwardine

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