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Zach Dresser is a historian of nineteenth-century American religion and intellectual life, with research interests in Christian theology, race, millennialism, and lived religion. He teaches courses on the religious dynamics of politics, race, and popular culture in the United States and modern world, as well as American Studies. Dresser’s current research explores theology in the Civil War era, focusing on the ways in which belief helped southerners cope with defeat and respond to the trials of Reconstruction. He recently co-edited and contributed to a volume entitled Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era. These interdisciplinary essays demonstrate the power of religious notions, particularly thoughts about divine Providence and the end times, in shaping nineteenth-century American life.