DiscoverProfessor Buzzkill History Podcast“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters
“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters

Update: 2024-12-03
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Professor Buzzkill finally gives you the “summation and inspiration” episode about The Battle Hymn of the Republic that he promised you! He traces the Battle Hymn from the post-Civil War years, the Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Era, the burgeoning union movement, the funerals of Churchill and RFK, schoolyard parodies and English football fan songs, and Whitney Houston’s beautiful rendition in 1991. Finally, he shows how Martin Luther King used it in his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech the night before he was shot. All this, Professor Buzzkill argues, reminds us that the _Republic_ part of The Battle Hymn of the Republic needs to be stressed if the country is going to be saved. Episode 573.
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“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters

“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory” - Why the Battle Hymn of the Republic Still Matters

Joe Coohill