Michael Fellman - "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword"

Series: Civil War
Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands, considers how perfectly ordinary Americans could revise their moral and religious beliefs to justify such extraordinary violence with relative ease. Selectively picking texts from Holy Scripture, they assembled a war God perfectly suited to their actions out of Christian belief. Author of the path-breaking books Inside War, and In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History, Fellman, a professor of history emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, explicates a haunting and recurring theme that stalks American history.
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This event is co-sponsored by: Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Charitable Trust, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, Bernardin Haskell Lecture Fund, Center for Regional Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City
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Michael Fellman - "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword"

Series: Civil War
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