Auteur: Daniel W. Stowell

"An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." -Strategy Page Dividing the nati …

Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms. Each side believed that its fight was just, that God favored its cause. Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneou …

Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms. Each side believed that its fight was just, that God favored its cause. Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneou …

Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750, 000 casualties and forever changed the country’s destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and …

From debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois. Nearly one-fifth of Abraham Lincoln’s ca …