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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Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
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