In recent years, the intersection of religion and the American Civil War has been the focus of a growing area of scholarship. However, primary sources on this s

The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, mor

Ernest Tuveson here shows that the idea of the redemptive mission which has motivated so much of the United States foreign policy is as old as the Republic itse