Sublime

Challenging Nominal Christianity

ago—the craft of writing as the art of thinking.

With its publication Wilson became, as Frederick Jackson Turner saw it, “the first southern scholar of adequate training and power who has dealt with American history as a whole.” Other reviewers shared Turner’s admiration for Wilson’s history, yet they couldn’t help but notice the author’s fondness for the Ku Klux Klan, an organization whose missi

glib,

lugubriously

In his history of the Emancipation Proclamation, Allen C. Guelzo suggests that “the gift of coup d’oeil” allowed Lincoln to “take in the whole of a situation at once and know almost automatically how to proceed.”

“last, best hope of earth.”

how Jefferson