America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation Virgin Islands and social aspects of the

and social aspects of the conflict

without preconceived ideas

other people are not nearly as committed to our happiness as we are

But the United States was still a neutral country and

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation Virgin Islands and social aspects of theIn this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening surged through America, political questions became