Civil War Awakening is Adam Goodheart's contribution to the canon of Civil War historiography. The book is unique in that it is focused on the titular year, give or take a few for historical context. 1861: The Civil War Awakening also has the latter word in its title because of the fact that Goodheart focuses much on the social and ideological awakenings that the war came to entail.
Roughly proceeding in chronological order, the chapters of 1861: The Civil War Awakening encompass the lives of those who fought in the war, focusing mainly on Union military personnel and white male citizens. The book fulfills its promise as a narrative of a year in the life of a nation.
The American experience and American society were fundamentally changed after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, claims Goodheart. To illustrate his thesis, the author draws from detailed analyses of primary source material. The book opens with a Prologue about the events leading up to and surrounding the fateful Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. The reader learns a bit of background about the cohesiveness of the Confederacy vs. The relative complacency of the Union. The Union, in fact, formed in opposition to the Confederacy. That the Confederacy was as serious as it was came as a great surprise: causing the Union to become "Wide Awake," as the author titles the first chapter of the book. We meet characters like Old Uncle Farnham in each chapter and throughout the book. Their individual stories are...
Great Awakening in America The Great Awakenings refer to several waves of interest in religion in America. These waves have coincided with increases in economic prosperity and materialism that have caused people to view religion with less interest. It began in the 1930s as disunited attempts at religious revival and in the 1940s had matured into "the remarkable Revival of Religion" (Lambert, p. 6). During the 1740 sThe Great Awakenings aimed
Using Tennents' strategy, the clergymen of Presbyterian, Puritan and Baptist churches were conducting revivals in their regions by the 1740s. Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards stirred up flamboyant and terrifying images of the absolute corruption of the human nature in their emotionally charged sermons. These preachers also described the terrors awaiting the unrepentant in hell in their powerful sermons. Some of the converts from the early revivals in the northern
American History The Battle over Political Influence: Dominance of the 'New Lights' (Evangelist) Movement in the Great Awakening After the England colonies have established themselves in their newfound territory, New England, they started establishing a new society that will be governed under the Puritanist moral code. This is vital in understanding New England society, whose step towards self-governance is implementing laws and norms in the society adherent to the teachings of Puritanism,
great awakening was a religious revival that swept across America in the 1730s to 1740s that saw the restructuring of the society in general within America. For the very first time, this religious revival managed to bring the Native Americans and the blacks into the organized churches as opposed to the prior diverse ways of their worship to their various gods. It also brought the new colonialists into the
Great Awakening and the Enlightenment The Great Awakening, was not, as many believe a continuous spiritual awakening or revival in colonial America, instead it was a several revivals in a variety of locations (Matthews). However, The Great Awakening is an appropriate name. The new Americans had found their lives much different from their lives in England. In England the communities were compact, but in America people lived in great expanses
The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons were enormous, and it was matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary influence of his oratory on his hearers (Brannan 1998). Franklin, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and a true Democrat, saw both Whitefield's democratic tendencies and the threat that he posed to the Established Church. He noted that
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