"A book of uncommon significance, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America compels us to rethink the causes for the Civil War and once again place the mo

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Since Perry Miller's 1940 essay on the connection between Puritan theology and Transcendentalism, "From Edwards to Emerson," there has been a dominant model for

This timely book investigates the increasing visibility and influence of evangelical Christians in recent American politics with a focus on racial justice. Pete