Originally published in 1987, this new, expanded edition further argues that the civil rights movement and its opposition, with their conflicting images and hop

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated

Originally published in 1987, this new, expanded edition further argues that the civil rights movement and its opposition, with their conflicting images and hop

Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narrative

Charles Reagan Wilson documents that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to ho