Category: Religion
Rutherford B. Hayes Represented Escaped Slaves, Civil War General, and President
President Rutherford B. Hayes was born on October 2, 1822. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States, succeeded Ulysses S. Grant in office. Born…
Thomas Starr King Statue Outside the California Capitol Building
Thomas Starr King’s statue was in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Unfortunately, in 2006 State Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, a Republican from Murrieta,…
Kentuckian Episcopalians Ask Church to Denounce Civil War Leader Rev. James Craik
Rev. James Craik was an important figure in the Episcopal church in the United States at the time of the Civil War. He was an…
Chappaqua Friends Meeting House a Refuge for Escaped Slaves
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting was built in 1753 by a group of transplanted Long Islanders who set up the first Quaker community in Westchester County…
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie NY
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie, N.Y. is a church that goes back before the time of the Civil War. The church is…
Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour
Harriet Tubman today is an iconic figure of resistance to slavery, fighting for the Union to abolish slavery, and caring for Black veterans who served…
A Presbyterian Pastor Gives Thanks for the Formation of the Confederacy Thanksgiving 1860
Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…
NY Times Reviews LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz
LINCOLN’S GOD: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz was reviewed recently by Ted Widmer in the New York Times. Here…
“The Little Church Around the Corner,” The Civil War, and The Draft Riots
The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on 29th St. in Manhattan is known to all New Yorkers as “The Little Church Around the Corner.” Although…
Church of the Transfiguration: The Church at the Heart of Civil War Era Irish Five Points
I was in Chinatown in New York one day in 2016 at the Chinese Benevolent Association. Right down the block is one of the most…
Recent Comments