In the past I’ve also been fairly active/interested in the Second Great Awakening and its tangentially related intellectual connection to environmentalism. (From narratives of restoring a primitive church to a preserving a pristine wilderness)

Alan, I was a few years behind you at HU, and took some of your dad’s polisci classes. Anyway, I just finished this book yesterday, and echo your sentiments. It was heartbreaking, tragic, and thought provoking.