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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.
My research and publications centre on the United States between 1776 and the Civil War; their primary thematic focus is the relationship between politics and religion in a democratising society that tolerated slavery and lacked a national church establishment.
Richard Carwardine, CMG, FBA, FLSW is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of American History. His research and publications centre on the United States between 1776 and the Civil War. His chief interest is the interplay of politics and religion in a society that tolerated slavery and lacked a national church establishment.
Jan 9, 2007 · In this superb, prize-winning biography, acclaimed historian Richard Carwardine examines Lincoln’s dramatic political journey, from his early years in the Illinois legislature to his nation-shaping years in the White House.
Jul 1, 2024 · Richard Carwardine. The Blood-Spattered Banner. American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873. By Alan Taylor. W W Norton 577pp £33.99. A mountain of historical studies testifies to enduring interest in the American Civil War, a conflict still politically relevant in a nation riven over how to remember it.
In his latest book, Lincoln's Sense of Humor, Richard Carwardine seeks to rediscover the "authentic richness" and "complexity" of Abraham Lincoln's humor (p. 134). This aspect of Lincoln's life, Carwardine notes, has generally been downplayed in works on the sixteenth president of the United States.
British scholar Richard Carwardine discusses his years studying Abraham Lincoln. He was named Rhodes Professor of American History and Institutions at Oxford University in 2002, a post he held until 2009.
