Religion, Slavery, US Civil War (CHT 320)
Term: 2025-2026 School Year Spring Semester
Description
This course is an examination of the role that religious groups and religious ideologies played in American culture during the years surrounding the Civil War. Special attention will be given to understanding the ways that the War transformed American culture and religious identity, the role that religious bodies played in supporting and promoting war efforts, Abraham Lincoln’s religiosity, and the intersection of religious identity and abolitionism, African American resistance, and white supremacy during that period.