Palestine, also called the Holy Land, has a symbolic role to play in the three Abrahamic religions. Yet, it was only seen as a symbol and nothing more. Around the mid-nineteenth century, American Protestants started gaining interest in Palestine by going there themselves or reading about it in various books. Rogers' book Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine puts forward multiple ways that Americans identified with the Holy Land. His arguments can be supported by Obenzinger's ideas on this mania present in the US cultural history in the 19th century and on the…