Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) heritage Drawing on previously overlooked sources

Drawing on previously overlooked sources

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the sculpture received congressional approval in 1925

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Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union (Richard Carwardine -CH) heritage Drawing on previously overlooked sourcesby 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