Civil War-era history examines many faiths

 

Published: January 30, 2011

The United States is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War until 2015. In “ God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War” ( University of North Carolina Press, $35), George C. Rable , a professor of history at the University of Alabama , explores what people thought religiously of the situation before and during the Civil War.

He found that the sectionalism an...


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