In Episode 10 of Star-Spangled Studies, Dr. G explores how faith ignited reform and shaped antebellum America. Key topics include:

• Second Great Awakening & Finney’s new theology

• Camp meetings, circuit riders & the rise of Baptists & Methodists

• “Burned-over District,” new sects & utopian experiments

• Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau & self-reliance

• Benevolent Empire: temperance, asylums & public schools

• Radical abolitionism: Walker, Garrison & Douglass’s “What to the Slave…”

• Women in reform: Grimké sisters, Mott, Stanton & the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

• Debates over social control vs. genuine revival

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Episode 10 of Star-Spangled Studies dives into the Second Great Awakening and the reform wave it unleashed—revivals, utopian communities, transcendentalism, abolitionism, temperance, and the origins of the women’s rights movement.