BackStory

The following is a list of sources used or consulted in the making of the BackStory episode, “Apocalypse Now & Then: A History of End-Times,” broadcast in December 2012.  You can listen to the entire episode here.

Books Mentioned on the Show:

Gribbin, John R. and Stephen Plageman. The Jupiter Effect. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1976. Print.

Gribbin, John R. and Stephen Plageman. The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. Print.

Lindsey, Hal. The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Print.

Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Print.

Wojcik, Daniel. The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism and Apocalypse in America. New York: NYU Press, 1999. Print.

Films Mentioned on the Show:

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) (Watch the scene with Dr. Evil’s doomsday “laser.”)

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (Watch the scene where the doomsday machine is described)

Survival Under Atomic Attack (1951)

Bibliography

Abanes, Richard. End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. 1998. Print.

Andersson, Rani-Henrik. The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Print.

Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Print.

Baumgartner, Frederic J. Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Print.

Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1994. Print.

Calloway, Colin G. Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indians Views of How the West Was Lost. New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Print.

Keane, Stephen. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. Print.

Knight, George.  Millenial Fever and the End of the World: A Study of Millerite Adventism.  Boise: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1993.  Print.

Thompson, Damian.  The End of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millenium. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996.  Print.

Ostler, Jeffrey. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print.

Scully, Randolph.  Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia.  Charlottesville:  University of Virginia Press, 2008.  Print.

Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses:  Prophecies, Cults, and Millenial Beliefs through the Ages.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.  Print.

Outside Links

A 1946 exhibit at the Hayden Planetarium in which you could live out five different end of the world scenarios. Courtesy of Popular Science Magazine.