John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

That’s the other problem with the patriotic component of the cause: as James Boyce pointed out in the February issue of this ...

Julia Ward Howe, an abolitionist, suffragist, and author best known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," was horrified by the carnage of the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War.

Contestants included Ivan Emilio, representing Puerto Rico, and Sahara Mendez, representing the Dominican Republic. First up ... What year was the iconic song "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee released? The ...

Commission members, elected officials and special guests will celebrate the anniversary with song and story ... protect and defend the constitutional republic they helped create,” Chris Averill ...

“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was born. It was only November, and already more than forty thousand soldiers had fallen. The eternal language of euphemism—swords and lightning—had begun ...

And, like “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the material world is figured as speaking. Whereas in Howe, the speech in question is God’s “righteous sentence,” in the “Marching Song” the animals of the ...

After the General’s 6th Armored Division had rolled up and turned them loose, the Yanks set their theme song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It began: We’re a bunch of Yankee ...

Today, with a few word changes, her “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is an American standard ... appreciating poetry, playing music and doing math. One student, Laura Bridgman, who was both ...