Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University and a fellow of St. Catherine’s College. Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2006, he is author of Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America 1790-1865 (1978) and Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993). His analytical political biography of Abraham Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004; the American edition was subsequently published as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2006). He is currently working on a study of religion in American national construction between the Revolution and the Civil War.

Lecture topics:

• Abraham Lincoln, God, and the American Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press during the American Civil War
• Battling for Souls: Interdenominational Warfare in the Early American Republic
• "Wonderful Self-Reliance": Abraham Lincoln's Leadership
• Abraham Lincoln, Citizen of the World

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