Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) pistol This collection of thoughtful essays

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

The Allies achieved victory not through pluck and democratic idealism but through savage firebombing raids on civilian targets and the slaughter of millions of Soviet soldiers

mysterious gaps appear in recorded history

and individuals of the mid-19th century

He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) pistol This collection of thoughtful essaysby 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