Category: Religion
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…
William Ellery Channing Statue Early Unitarian Theologian & Slavery Opponent in Boston Photo Tour
William Ellery Channing was one of the earliest and most prominent American Unitarian theologians. He influenced later writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David…
Plymouth Church Brooklyn, Henry Ward Beecher and the Civil War Photo Tour
Although I live on Long Island, I was often in historic Brooklyn to visit Michele. I will be sharing some picture that I took in…
New Civil War Historical Marker of 1862 Passover By Union Troops in Fayetteville, WV Unveiling April 3
Civil War Trails has announced that its first trail marker on Jews during the Civil War will be unveiled on April 3 in Fayetteville, West…
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