18. Religion, Nationalism and Moral Purpose

Questions:
1. How did the Civil War affect ideas of patriotism and national identity?
2. Is it fair to describe the Civil War as a "holy war"?

George Frederickson, “The Doctrine of Loyalty,” chapter 9 of The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) [pp. 130-150] UCL TEACHING COLLECTION: Main 3169
Carl N. Degler, “One Among Many: The United States and National Unification,” from Gabor S. Boritt, ed., Lincoln the War President (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Thomas Bender, “Freedom in an Age of Nation-Making,” chapter 3 of A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (New York: Hill & Wang, 2006)
Lawson, Melinda, “‘A Profound National Devotion’: The Civil War Union Leagues and the Construction of a New National Patriotism,” Civil War History 48.4 (2002)
Anne C. Rose, “Religion” in Victorian America and the Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust “Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army,” Journal of Southern History 53, (1987), pp. 63-90.
James H. Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978)
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Steven E. Woodworth, While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001)
Phillip S. Paludan, “Religion and the American Civil War,” in Miller, Stout & Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War (1998), pp. 21-42

Primary sources
Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”
Henry Bellows, Unconditional Loyalty. New York, 1863, in Frank Freidel, ed., Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), Vol. 2., pp. 857-871.
Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address”