Category: Religion
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…
Mass German Immigration Lead to a Post-War Lutheran Boom January 1869
Immigration revived strongly after the end of the Civil War, with the largest group of immigrants shifting from Irish to Germans. The increased immigration brought…
In 1870 Ulysses S. Grant Made Christmas a National Holiday
Christmas had a varied history in colonial America. While many settlers celebrated it, from the Dutch in New York to British in Virginian, it was…
A Reconstruction Era Church in Manhattan Showed Growing Strength of Irish Immigrant Community: Photo Tour
The Parish of St. Bernard was established in 1868 in a developing Manhattan Irish immigrant community. From 1873 to 1875 the massive St. Barnard Church…
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