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Amistad Gives African American Their Due
Peter T. Chattaway
Bookshelf: Essential Reading on the American Dilemma
John Wilson
Awakenings in America: Seasons of the Spirit
Spiritual awakenings have brought lasting benefits to the Church and the surrounding culture. Have we forgotten our great heritage of renewals?
Spiritual Awakenings in North America: Did You Know?
Peter Cartwright
In the Wake of the Second Great Awakening
In Darkest England and the Way Out
Selections from William Booth's bold proposal for eliminating poverty
—William Booth (1890)
Charles H. Spurgeon: Did You Know?
A collection of true and unusual facts about Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Eric W. Hayden, formerly minister at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, is the author of numerous books on Spurgeon, including Searchlight on Spurgeon (Pilgrim, 1973).
The Spiritual
In the furnace of slavery, a lasting musical form was forged.
Angela M. S. Nelson is a doctoral candidate in American culture at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University.
The Golden Age of Hymns: A Gallery of the Hymn Writers' Hall of Fame
The poets who put words in our mouths.
Vinita Hampton Wright is Editorial Assistant for Harold Shaw Publishers. She has written previously for Christian History.
What Did Slave Songs Sound Like?
Angela M. S. Nelson is a doctoral candidate in American culture at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University.
The Abolitionists
Despised and often attacked, they courageously carried the slaves' cause for thirty years. Why have these inescapably Christian men and women been forgotten?
Tim Stafford is senior writer for Christianity Today and author of numerous books including, with Dave Dravecky, Comeback (Zondervan, 1991). He is writing a historical novel on the abolitionist movement.
Preaching the Holy War
What did Protestant ministers say about the raging national battle?
Dr. James H. Moorhead is Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869 (Yale, 1978).
God Is On Our Side
Selections from sermons during the Civil War era. From God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865 edited by David B. Chesebrough (University of South Carolina press, 1991). Used by permission.
The Secret Religion of the Slaves
They often risked floggings to worship God.
Dr. Albert J. Raboteau is Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion and chairman of the religion department at Princeton University. He is author of Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South (Oxford, 1978), from which this article is excerpted by permission.
Christianity and the Civil War: Recommended Resources
Christian History asked Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson to recommend books that creatively explore Christianity during the Civil War era. Dr. Wilson is professor of history and Southern studies at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is also author of Baptism in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 (Georgia, 1980).
Christianity and the Civil War: Did You Know?
Little-known or remarkable facts about Christianity during the American Civil War
Christianity and the Civil War: From the Editor - What PBS Didn't Tell You
KEVIN A. MILLER
The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln
Where was God in this brutal national war? An unbaptized non-churchgoer came up with a profound answer.
Mark A. Noll
Lincoln's Life - And Key Religious Statements
Dr. Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton (Illinois) College and a member of the editorial advisory board of CHRISTIAN HISTORY. His most recent book is A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992).
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