Part I: Beginnings :

1. European expansion and Catholic settlement

2. The English Reformation and the Puritans

3. Other beginnings

Part II: Americanization :

4. A renewal of piety, 1700-1750

5. The churches in the revolution

6. The revolution in the churches

Part III: The "Protestant century" :

7. Evangelical mobilization

8. "Outsiders"

9. "Evangelical America," 1800-1865

10. His dominion: "Christian Canada"

11. The American Civil War

12. White Protestants carry on, 1865-circa 1900

13. Non-white, non-Protestant

Part IV: Tumultuous times, 1900-2018 :

14. Protestant uncertainty, 1900-1918

15. The world in the churches, the churches in the world, 1918-1960

16. Revolutions and counterrevolutions, 1960-2001

17. "Church history," 1960-2018

18. The recent past, 2001-2018

Part V: Reflections :

19. Legacies of "Christian America" and "Christian Canada"

20. American Christianity, Christianity in America.