National Character A Thanksgiving Discourse Delivered November 15th

National Character is a Thanksgiving discourse by Nathaniel Clark Burt (1825-1874), an American Presbyterian minister, delivered in the Civil War era when the holiday became a fixed national observance. Burt reflects on what makes the character of a people and the duties such a character lays on a nation under God, in the pulpit-and-patriotism style of the wartime North. Such sermons are documents of how Americans understood their nation in crisis. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.