The "Peculiar Children" of the Nation: American Civil Religion at Antebellum West Point
This thesis examines the history of antebellum West Point, tracing connections between the religious atmosphere of the Academy and the political ideology which it inculcated into cadets. A central claim of this essay is that the Revival of 1826 cemented a distinctly religious rhetoric as the operati...
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4876 |