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American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869
American Apocalypse Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 18601869 Author:James, H Moorhead Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a... more » redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennialism -- to interpret the experience of Civil War and Reconstruction.« less