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Chapter 3.
Historical or political events
3.31.
Names of historical or political events used as a proper name are capitalized.
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- Christian Era
- D-day
- Dust Bowl
- Fall of Rome
- Great Depression
- Great Society
- Holocaust, the
- Middle Ages
- New Deal
- New Federalism
- New Frontier
- Prohibition
- Restoration, the
- Reformation
- Renaissance
- Revolution, the
- American, 1775
- English, 1688
- French, 1789
- Russian, 1917
- V-E Day
- War of 1812
- War on Poverty
but Korean war; cold war; Vietnam war; gulf war
Personification
3.32.
A vivid personification is capitalized.
- The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York;
but I spoke with the chair yesterday.
- For Nature wields her scepter mercilessly.
- All are architects of Fate,
- Working in these walls of Time.
Religious terms
3.33.
Words denoting the Deity except who, whose, and whom; names for the Bible and other sacred writings and their parts; names of confessions of faith and of religious bodies and their adherents; and words specifically denoting Satan are all capitalized.
- Heavenly Father; the Almighty; Lord; Thee; Thou; He; Him; but himself; You, Your; Thy, Thine; [God's] fatherhood
- Mass; red Mass; Communion
- Divine Father; but divine providence; divine guidance; divine service
- Son of Man; Jesus' sonship; the Messiah; but a messiah; messiahship; messianic; messianize; christology; christological
- Bible, Holy Scriptures, Scriptures, Word; Koran; also Biblical; Scriptural; Koranic
- New Testament; Ten Commandments
- Gospel (memoir of Christ); but gospel music
- Apostles' Creed; Augsburg Confession; Thirty-nine Articles
- Episcopal Church; an Episcopalian; Catholicism; a Protestant
- Christian; also Christendom; Christianity; Christianize
- Black Friars; Brother(s); King's Daughters; Daughter(s); Ursuline Sisters; Sister(s)
- Satan; the Devil; but a devil; the devils; devil's advocate
