8/29/2023 0 Comments Sound the battle cry hymn"But it was also about much more deeper and profound themes than that." "It was about the Union cause," Tierney tells Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz. ![]() Since then, the song's become a kind of second national anthem.ĭominic 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. Julia Ward Howe wrote the famous words "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" in 1861. There is no song that more vividly evokes that conflict than "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Purchase the album at Smithsonian Folkways' website
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