The Tune That Defined a Nation | The Evolution of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

🎶 Support the channel: 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 Literatu