Blum, Edward J.,

Reforging the white republic : race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898 / Edward J. Blum ; updated edition with a new foreword by John Stauffer. - Louisiana paperback edition. - xxxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War . - Conflicting worlds. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-344) and index.

Preface to the 2015 edition -- Race, religion, and the fracturing of the white republic -- The last and greatest battle of freedom : race and the American nation after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -- On the verge of heaven : religious missions, interracial contact, and the radicalism of radical Reconstruction -- The apostles of forgiveness : religion and national reunion in Northern society, popular culture, and national politics, 1865-1875 -- Inventor of Leganes Miraculous : national reconciliation and racial segregation during America's third Great Awakening -- The white flag waves : spiritual reunion and genocidal visions during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 -- No North, no South, no sectionalism in politics, no sex in citizenship : race, nationalism, and gender politics in the rise of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- To the person sitting in darkness : global missions, religious belief and the making of the imperial white republic -- Epilogue: Dreaming of the white republic, defending the souls of Black folk.

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Nationalism--History--United States--19th century.
Religion and politics--History--United States--19th century.
Nationalisme--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Religion et politique--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Nationalism.
Race relations.
Religion and politics.


United States--History--1865-1898.
United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
United States--Church history--19th century.
États-Unis--Histoire--1865-1898.
États-Unis--Relations raciales--Histoire--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Histoire religieuse--19e siècle.
United States.


Church history.
History.

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