Professor Richard Carwardine

MA, DPhil, FBA
Rhodes Professor of American History

St Catherine's College

Email: richard.carwardine@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Professor Carwardine works on the history of the United States in the era of the early Republic and Civil War. He has a particular interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, and in the place of evangelical Protestantism in the nation's construction during the nineteenth century. In 2004 his political biography of Abraham Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize awarded by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for the best book on the Civil War era.

Supervision Interests

Professor Carwardine welcomes inquiries about research supervision within the broad fields of American politics, religion and society during the early national and Civil War eras.

Selected Publications:

• Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1795-1865. (Westport, Conn., 1978)
• Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. (New Haven, 1993)
• 'Abraham Lincoln, the Presidency, and the mobilization of Union sentiment' in The American Civil War: Explorations and reconsiderations. (London, 2000)
• 'Methodists, Party Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War', Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. Vol 69 (2000) pp. 578-609
• 'Trauma in Methodism: Property, Church Schism and Sectional Polarization in Antebellum America' in God and Mammon: Protestants, Money and the Market 1790-1860. (New York, 2001) pp. 195-216
• 'The Politics of Charles Hodge in Nineteenth-Century Context' in Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work. (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2002) pp. 247-97
• Lincoln. (London, 2003) xviii, 352pp.
• ''Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Self-Improvement'' in Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations. (London and New York, 2003) pp. 266-285
• Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press during the American Civil War. (Reading, 2005) 1-35pp.
• Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. (New York, 2006) xv, 394pp.
• 'I would not be master: Governing the War' in The American Civil War Companion. (Oxford, 2006) pp. 40-59
• Our People Are Paralyzed for Want of Leadership’: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the American Civil War. (London, 2006) 26pp.
• 'Lincoln and Religion' in Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World . (New York, 2008) pp. 223-48
• 'A party man who did not believe in any man who was not: Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Union ' in In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals . (Baton Rouge, 2009) pp. 40-62

Future Publications:

• Building a Righteous Nation: Religion and the Construction of the United States, 1776-1865. (New York)

Research Interests and Activities

• History of the United States