This week, a lecture about American churches during World War I.

Professor Richard Gamble of Michigan's Hillsdale College teaches a class on American churches

and religion during World War I.

This was startling to people during the First World War and bringing the war right inside

the church.

You have the war throughout the week that you're filled with anxiety about,

and then you come into church and you're singing the battle hymn of the Republic.

There's the flag.

There are the battle flags.

There's a sermon about the war.

Professor Gamble also discusses how American pastors, ministers, and rabbis spoke about the

Great War before and after the U.S. entered the conflict.

This lecture was part of a course titled, The U.S. from the Great War to the Cold War.

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All right. Good morning, everyone. And we are going to wrap up one part of America's experience in the First World War by addressing

explicitly the question of American religion during the war, the role of the churches during

the war.

Vast topic, and we will only get partway through that today.

For class next time, you have the readings that are more focused on social gospel clergy

and a response to social gospel clergy.

So we won't be done with this today, but we are going to work our way through a broad

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