Conservative Conversations with ISI

Richard Gamble on Protestantism in America, the Gettysburg Address, and American Exceptionalism

September 06, 2022 Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Conservative Conversations with ISI
Richard Gamble on Protestantism in America, the Gettysburg Address, and American Exceptionalism
Show Notes

In this episode:

  • Richard Gamble, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss the two strands of American civil religion
  • Lincoln’s European political influences, and how Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address changed the way that America thinks about its purpose and how it reshapes our view of the American Founding
  • Why the “old” conception of American Exceptionalism offers the best understanding of the American identity
  • How Protestantism shaped the landscape of American higher education in the colonial period and the early Republic


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