Theology in a Suffering World

by Christopher Southgate

2018 · Cambridge University Press

The book proposes a new way of understanding the glory of God in Christian theology, based on glory as sign.

Vicksburg's Long Shadow

by Christopher Waldrep

2005 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

War -- The meaning of the Civil War in Reconstruction -- The generals' war -- The boys from Iowa -- The great reunion -- A farewell to arms -- A new deal -- Herman Lieb's report on Milliken's Bend -- "The Battle of Milliken's Bend" / by David Cornwell -- Reported lynchings in Warren County -- State monuments on the Vicksburg battleground.

Ungentle Goodnights

by Christopher McKee

2018 · Naval Institute Press

Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to recover the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831 and 1866. The records of the Naval Asylum are an especially rich source for discovering these lower-deck lives because would-be residents were required to submit summaries of their naval careers as part of the admission process. Using these and related records, published and manuscript, it is possible to reconstruct the veterans' lives from their teenage years (and sometimes earlier) until their deaths. Previous historians who have written about the pre-Civil War naval enlisted force have depended on published nineteenth-century sailor and Marine autobiographies, which may not accurately reflect the realities of enlisted life. Ungentle Goodnights seeks to discover the life experiences of real Marines and naval sailors, not a few of whom were misbehaving, crafty, and engaging individuals who feature prominently in the book.