American civil religion

The Manifest Destiny was the name given to the Anglo-American (white) expansion into the west. The Manifest Destiny believed that white Americans were superior people who believed in God. Americans were to populate North America “sea to shining sea” and spread the religion of Christianity. Manifest destiny highlighted American’s confidences, they moved west for more land, it uplifted the American’s freedom and democracy. The United States uses the Manifest Destiny to start war with Mexico…

Throughout the history of the Civil War there were many people the world idolized and give great recognition to. Abner Doubleday is credited for his time served as an Army Officer and a Union General during the Civil War. Ironically, many do not give credit for one of his most famous ideas; Americas favorite pastime, baseball. In fact, the Civil War enhanced the game of baseball which lead it to the national league that it is today. The Civil War expanded baseball throughout the country and…

of 1831 in the United States and how they affected the country and put it on the path towards the Civil War. Masur addresses this question by focusing on four main subjects, which are coincidentally the four chapters of the book. These topics are Slavery and Abolition which discusses the issues regarding free blacks and the plans that were formed in order to abolish slavery, among other topics, Religion and Politics talks about the flood of religious sects and movements that were formed and the…

nineteenth century is arguably the most important century in American history. From slavery abolition to the United States of America becoming a complete war powerhouse in the world, lives were never going to be the same. We can see how the nineteenth century had completely changed the lives of every living American, but it did not just impact the lives of those living during the nineteenth century, it has impacted every 321 million American citizens, living today. All throughout this incredible…

history and the moral categorization of the natural world. The general morale of what we decided is evil can be traced back to the Bible, whose standard of ethics has contributed to law system of the government. In her book “Evil in modern thought”, American philosopher Susan Neiman, then distinctly separates moral evil versus natural evil. By understanding this difference we are able to learn what it truly…

Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War is an ambitious and thought provoking read. Faust tackles a subject that has not been widely written about: the “death ways” of the American Civil War generation.2 Faust divides her study of the newly transformed ars moriendi into nine areas in the chapters that follow her preface entitled the Work of Death. The actual process of an individual soldier’s death is explained in Dying. The war’s destructive force on its…

political and social. “Mightier than the Sword” narrates the results of the power of race, nation and religion in an argumentative production. Stowe manifests in this book the “religion of love, to all-black and whites, the slaved and the free, the poor and the rich, children as well as adults” (Reynolds, 1). As per Stowe, there was an autonomous redefinition of the religion when the American churches accepted the slavery in some areas of the Unites States, especially in the South which openly…

great African Americans. In spite of living in different time periods, Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass can be evaluated because both men were instrumental for the growth and successfulness of the African American community. Their Views can be assessed. Religion, education, struggle for rights, writing abilities and work ethic are topics which can be compared in the lives of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X which can be compared in the lives of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X. Religion is a…

discrepancies managed to divide the once congenial country and fabricate a Civil War. The Civil War can easily be seen as the second American Revolution, considering it brought about significant change in history in the social, political, and economic aspects. In the social aspect, just as freedom of speech and religion was a problem for the colonies in the American Revolution, slavery was a major problem during the Civil war. The establishment of slavery…

The Civil War was perhaps one of the most important conflicts in shaping our nation. The events leading up to the war had been abated since the creation of the constitution, even the course of the war itself, impacted the way the war progressed the nation. Also the question of how to reassemble the nation afterwards had impacted the way the war is viewed today. Ultimately, the events surrounding the Civil War left the North victorious in the war, while leaving the South triumphant in the battle…