The Puritans: celebrating the glory of heaven

Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening: heaven is a world of love

The early national era and the Second Great Awakening

Heaven as home: the Victorians and heaven, 1830-1870

Slavery, the Civil War, and heaven

Heaven in the Gilded Age: Dwight L. Moody and the princes of the pulpit

Heaven in the progressive years: personal growth, service, and reform

Shifting conceptions of heaven from the roaring twenties to the fabulous fifties

New currents and old streams, 1960-2000

Heaven in a postmodern, anxiety-ridden, entertainment-oriented, therapeutic, happiness-based culture.