Richard John Carwardine CMG FBA FRHistS FLSW (born 12 January 1947) is a Welsh historian and academic. He specialises in American politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War.
The professor is best known for his work on President Abraham Lincoln and was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2016.
Books in order of publication:
Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790–1865. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1978
Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993
Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press During the American Civil War. [Reading]: University of Reading, 2004
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
The Global Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011
Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
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