Joshua Zeitz
Författare till Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
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Joshua Zeitz is a lecturer on American history and fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge.
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (2022) — Bidragsgivare — 163 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Zeitz, Joshua
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Zeitz, Joshua Michael
- Födelsedag
- 1973
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- Utbildning
- Bordentown Regional High School
Swarthmore College (B.A.)
Brown University (M.A., Ph.D.) - Yrken
- Lecturer (Harvard, Rutgers, Cambridge)
- Organisationer
- Democratic Party (nominee, House of Representatives, 2008)
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- 5
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- 1
- Medlemmar
- 1,015
- Popularitet
- #25,390
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 26
- ISBN
- 24
As the tumult over slavery increased, the connection of emancipation and politics changed substantially toward more engagement with politics. Many evangelists took overtly political stands on the issues of the day, particularly migrating their support for the new Republican party. By the time of the war, there was blatant opining from the pulpit on the imperative of the religious to lobby and advocate for the suppression of the rebellious slaveholding South. The obsession with hastening the millennium through social reforms also played a major part in the growing political activism by evangelicals. The author recounts well how the growing connection of pro and anti slavery doctrines caused the splits between northern and southern branches of the major denominations.
Lincoln's views on religion were always somewhat ambiguous. Throughout his life Lincoln was never a member of any church. Early on, he was accused of being at best a Deist and perhaps a nonbeliever. As the burdens of the war came upon him, and certainly after the death of his son Willie, his references to the will of God as influencing the course to take became clear. But, he believed that the intention of God were somewhat inscrutable and that God's plans did not necessarily coalesce entirely with the virtue of the North's causes. His incredible 2nd inaugural address vividly shows how his interpretation of scripture formed his thinking on the meaning of the causes and perpetuation of the war.… (mer)