Visions of Zion: Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty Progessivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties K

Visions of Zion: Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty Progessivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties K

J. Larry Hood
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Publication Date: February 24th, 2005
Publisher:
University Press of America
ISBN:
9780761830658
Pages:
298
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Description

Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln in their fathers' war had promised: a new birth of freedom.

About the Author

J. Larry Hood is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Professor Hood received his M.B.A. from Xavier University and his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Kentucky.