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Sunday, November 14, 2010

'Battle Hymn Of The Republic': The Other National Anthem (NPR News)

From NPR News (All Things Considered):

November 13, 2010


Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. There is no song that more vividly evokes that conflict than "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Julia Ward Howe wrote the famous words­ "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" in 1861. Since then, the song's become a kind of second national anthem.

Dominic Tierney, an assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College, talks about the history of the song — the Elvis and Judy Garland versions, for example — in the new issue of The Atlantic, which is where the poem was originally published in 1862.

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131251777/-battle-hymn-of-the-republic----the-other-national-anthem

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