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0:00 I: Canaan’s Happy Shore
2:26 II: John Brown’s Body
9:23 III: Julia Ward Howe
18:12 IV: Tune
19:51 V: The First Arkansas
22:29 VI: Reconstruction
26:12 VII: Theology
34:16 VIII: Imperialism
38:40 IX: Civil Religion
44:14 X: Protest
50:27 XI: The Promised Land
55:06 XII: A National Anthem
📚 Sources/further reading:
The primary source was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song that Marches On” by John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Additional sources were:
• “The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History” by Christopher H. Evans (NY University Press, 2017)
• “Strange Rites” by Tara Isabella Burton (PublicAffairs, 2020)
• “Julia Ward Howe and the Coming Day of Jehovah: Eschatology and Rhetorical Flexibility in ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’” by Mark Decker (ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Vol 67/1, 2021, pp. 85–118)
• “The Battle Hymn of the Republic and American Civil Religion” by Richard M. Gamble (Modern Age, Fall 2014)
• “The Rhetorical Legacy of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’” by Caroline C. Koons (Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 80/3, Jul–Aug 2015, pp. 211–229)
• “Civil Religion in America” by Robert Bellah (Daedalus: Vol. 96/1, Religion in America, Winter 1967, pp. 1–21)
• “American Civil Religion: An Idea Whose Time has Gone” by Frederick Mark Gedicks: https://classic.iclrs.org/content/blurb/files/Gedicks 20090310.pdf
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Music:
For copyright reasons, I tuned up my mandolin and squeaked out some verses of “John Brown’s Body,“ the First Arkansas Marching Song, and “Solidarity Forever.” The rest of the music, in order of appearance, is as follows:
- The 97th Regimental String Band: The Battle Hymm of the Republic (from Tenting on the Old Camp Ground: Civil War Era Songs, Vol. IV) [X_y5W8bK20I]
- Paul Robeson: John Brown’s Body [M_UpjvmwEVI]
- Thurl Ravenscroft: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [DGLL2-z2hnE]
- J.W. Myers: John Brown’s Body [Zxel4CfyBT4]
- Robert Shaw: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [AFbboRBPZZQ]
- Unknown: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [C8FOhdS9gYQ]
- Tennessee Ernie Ford: Marching Song of the First Arkansas [jKss9jF2Yxw]
- Mitch Miller: The Battle Hymn of the Republic [FMbEqet-Fm8]
- Carly Miller: The Battle Hymn of the Republic (from Spirit of the Age) [y_atLbxjbTc]
- The Former Red Army Choir: The Battle Hymn of the Republic arr. Peter Wilhousky [s3Qn8F8ZqKM]
- The Chad Mitchell Trio: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated/Brought Down to Date [U9C6fw9q1fo]
- Pete Seeger: Solidarity Forever [pCnEAH5wCzo]
- Len Chandler: Move On Over (or We’ll Move on Over You) [6UwatKXdcXg]
Other sources of interest:
Bible Belt map adapted from https://meador.org/2008/03/02/bible-belt/
9/11 national prayer service [rIrvgnX753Y]
MLK speech video [zgVrlx68v-0]
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