Our country : northern evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War era /
By examining Civil War-era Protestantism in terms of the Union, author Grant Brodrecht adds to the understanding of northern motivation and the eventual "failure" of Reconstruction to provide a secure basis for African American's equal place in society. Complementing recent scholarshi...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | North's Civil War.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Long live the glorious Union"
- "The uprising of a great people": a providential union
- 1864: Annus mirabilis
- "The harvest of death is complete": imagined unity
- From Moses to Joshua
- The Union saved again
- Pax Grantis: the great Protestant republic
- Conclusion: "The nation still in danger".