Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. America's Original Sin: Slavery from 1619 to 1790
  • 2. Struggle to the Death: War Cannot Be Separated from Ideology, Politics, or Religion
  • 3. I Hate Them with Perfect Hatred: Religion, Ideology, and Modern War
  • 4. They Shall Be Your Bond-Men Forever: Human Beings as Property
  • 5. Privilege of Belonging to the Superior Race: Slavery and National Expansion
  • 6. Gross Violation of a Sacred Pledge: Collapse of the Whig Party
  • 7. I Will Be Heard!: Religion, Ideology, and the Abolitionist Movement
  • 8. Institution Sanctioned by God: Southern Religious Support of Slavery
  • 9. Triumphs of Christianity Rest on Slavery: Holy Warriors at the Forefront
  • 10. With God as Our Champion: The Confederate Union of Church and State
  • 11. They Have Closed the Heavy Doors: The Dred Scott Decision
  • 12. Portents Hang on All the Arches of the Horizon: The Bloody Battle for Kansas
  • 13. General Jackson Is Dead: The Lecompton Constitution Controversy
  • 14. Cuba Must Be Ours: Fire-Eaters and Filibusters Spread Slavery
  • 15. Final Kingdom Has Arisen: Hubris and Fanaticism Bring On the War
  • 16. South Will Never Submit: Lincoln and the Choice for Secession and War
  • 17. Whom the Gods Intend to Destroy: The Madness of Southern Extremists
  • 18. Heather Is On Fire: Politics, Religion, and War
  • 19. Sound the Loud Timbrel: The Emancipation Proclamation
  • 20. I Knew What I Was Fighting For: Black Soldiers in the Civil War and After
  • 21. Reconstruction and Redemption: The Failure to Win the Peace
  • 22. Failure of Will: Reconstruction's End and Return to White Rule
  • 23. New Religion: The Noble Confederacy and the Lost Cause.