Richard Gamble on Protestantism in America, the Gettysburg Address, and American Exceptionalism
September 06, 2022
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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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