TY - GEN N2 - The End is near! This phrase, so well known in the contemporary United States, invokes images of manic self-proclaimed prophets of doom standing on street corners shouting their warnings and predictions to amused or indifferent passersby. However, such proclamations have long been a feature of the American cultural landscape, and were never exclusively the domain of wild-eyed fanatics. 'A Dream of the Judgment Day' describes the origins and development of American apocalypticism and millennialism from the beginnings of English colonization of North America in the early 1600s through the formation of the United States and its travails in the nineteenth century. AB - The End is near! This phrase, so well known in the contemporary United States, invokes images of manic self-proclaimed prophets of doom standing on street corners shouting their warnings and predictions to amused or indifferent passersby. However, such proclamations have long been a feature of the American cultural landscape, and were never exclusively the domain of wild-eyed fanatics. 'A Dream of the Judgment Day' describes the origins and development of American apocalypticism and millennialism from the beginnings of English colonization of North America in the early 1600s through the formation of the United States and its travails in the nineteenth century. T1 - A dream of the judgment day :American millennialism and apocalypticism, 1620-1890 / AU - Smith, John Howard, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BL2525 ID - 958657 KW - Eschatology. KW - Millennialism KW - End of the world. KW - Millennium (Eschatology) SN - 9780197533772 TI - A dream of the judgment day :American millennialism and apocalypticism, 1620-1890 / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197533741.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197533741.001.0001 ER -