Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) heritage S/L# 31994

S/L# 31994

Noble Cause takes readers across the rolling hills of Virginia in a page-turning tale of courage and love

From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E

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Drawing on previously overlooked sources

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) heritage S/L# 31994by 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