Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic. Raised in the Presbyterian Church, he would later decline to attend services and publicly question Christianity’s central tenets.

In January, for example, Knopf published Richard Carwardine’s “Righteous Strife: How Religious Nationalists ... to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the ...

In January, for example, Knopf published Richard Carwardine’s “Righteous Strife: How Religious Nationalists ... to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the ...