Millennial Fever and the End of the World: A Study of Millerite Adventism

George R. Knight is a historian of American Adventism at Andrews University, and this book remains the standard one volume scholarly account of the Millerite movement, tracing William Miller's biblical chronology, the shift to the specific October 22, 1844 date under Samuel Snow, and the movement's fragmentation afterward. Its publisher, Pacific Press, is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a fact this record states plainly rather than leaving to a reader to discover; the book is nonetheless cited as the standard reference on Millerism across the wider field of American religious history, including by historians with no denominational tie to Adventism. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with Knight's specific historical claims, and cross checks its account here against Ruth Alden Doan's independently published treatment of the same movement. Use it for the documented history of the Millerite movement and the Great Disappointment; a claim resting on Adventist theological interpretation of the event needs the Church's own doctrinal statement alongside it.