For those of you near Columbia, South Carolina: a symposium on Religion in the Civil War , to be held on Saturday, January 28th. The keynote speaker is the historian George C. Rable, author of God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the Civil War , which both won the Jefferson Davis award and was praised by the New York Review of Books .
The first speaker, Joe Long, may be familiar to readers of “While We’re At It.”
