Category: Religion
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn Photo Tour
Note: Thisd [page is under construction. This week’s piece of Civil War Era Brooklyn NY is First Unitarian Church. Completed in 1844 it stands on…
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…
“Slave Bible” on Display in Netherlands: Rewritten to Eliminate Freedom as a Virtue
A Bible used by British missionaries preaching to enslaved people in the Americas is now on display in Utrecht in the Netherlands. The 1807 Bible…
How Religious Pamphlets Supported the Confederate Cause During the Civil War
Religion’s place in American life has become a rich subject of Civil War Era research in recent decades. Josh Waddell, a scholar at the University…
Black Church Tolson’s Chapel Near Burnside’s Bridge Designated National Historic Landmark
Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg, Md. has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The church, established by African Americans in 1866, is near the road leading…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
What Were the Top Three Bible Verses in the North and the South During the Civil War?
In James Byrd’s new book Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood from Oxford University Press he presents data from newspapers, sermons, books and other sources…
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