Prof David Calhoun claims to be an expert on the 2nd Great Awakening, but in his “timeline of the Church” he mentions many obscure historical figures and acknowledges the “restoration movement” of the Campbellites, yet he completely neglects even mentioning Joseph Smith and the restored Church - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Why is that? He does himself, and his "students", a great disservice by not mentioning one of the key historical figures of that time. Regardless of whether or not he believe the Church needed to be restored (as did many Protestants of the day) or buy into the fact that God could actually call prophets in the "modern age", that should not matter.

Enough with the frightened bias. PLEASE Teach us the true historical facts without omitting one of the central players of the day.

If the starved scholars he “teaches” want to learn about the entire 2nd Awakening, order a historical book by “Penguin Books” entitled “Joseph Smith – A Life”.

http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Smith-Penguin-Robert-Remini/dp/067003083X/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246816965&sr=1-7