Robert K. Nelson and Scott Nesbit (the former in absentia) each delivered papers at the “Millennialism and Providentialism in the Era of the American Civil War” conference at Rice University in Houston. Nelson’s paper was entitled “Spirit Politics: Perfectionist Reform, Spiritualism, and the Attenuation of Antebellum Millennialism”; Nesbit’s “Millennial Spaces out of Slavery: Geography and Forgiveness in Reconstruction S.C.”