Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) pistol mysterious gaps appear in recorded

mysterious gaps appear in recorded history

including the Battle of Hastings

This collection of thoughtful essays offers not alternate histories or counterfactual scenarios

and individuals of the mid-19th century

riven by tensions and dramatic debates over how to end the most recent war

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) pistol mysterious gaps appear in recordedby Richard Carwardine The first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincolns contentious appeals to faith based nationalism How did slavery figure in Gods plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a mission amount to religious tyranny and pulpit politics, in an effort to strip the