Author: David Goldfield
David Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and the author, most recently, of America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation (Bloomsbury Press, 2011).
The Evangelical Origins of the American Civil War
Our nation’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War presents an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of that war and what we can learn from its awful carnage. Most historians today would agree that slavery caused the Civil War. No slavery, no war. That interpretation is not wrong, but it is incomplete. …