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Presbyterian involvement in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War. Featured image: James Caldwell at the Battle of Springfield by Henry Alexander Ogden.

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Title:
The Church and Draft Information
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284902
Title:
Presbyterians and the Draft.
Description:
Written by Ralph D. Nyland, chairman of the Draft Counseling Committee at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in DeWitt, New York.
Creator:
Nyland, Ralph D. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors., Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church (De Witt, N.Y.)
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284897
Title:
To Be a Conscientious Objector.
Description:
Pamphlet regarding conscientious objection to the Vietnam War. Published by the Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Service Committee for Religious Objectors.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors., Conscientious objection--United States--20th century., Conscientious objection--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284884
Title:
Letter from Gwen Patton Woods to L. William Yolton, February 16, 1970.
Description:
Letter addressed to Rev. L. William Yolton, Secretary of the Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War, written by Gwen Patton Woods of the National Association of Black Students.
Creator:
Patton, Gwendolyn M., 1943- (author), Yolton, L. William (Leroy William), 1930- (addressee)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War--Archives., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Emergency Ministry on Conscience and War.
Topics:
Draft--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:284880
Title:
Interfaith Ceremony Marks 35th Anniversary of Dachau Liberation.
Description:
Oliver Davis Collins, of Latham, New York (L), an United States Army Infantry Squad Leader who participated in liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945 talks with Julian Noga of Utica, New York a former slave laborer at Flossenburg Concentration Camp at an Albany Interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Polish-American Congress Central District of New York State. The occasion marks the 35th Anniversary of the liberation of Dachau.
Creator:
Saidel, Rochelle G. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Dachau (Concentration camp), Polish American Congress., Noga, Julian, -1921., Collins, Oliver D., Norden, Martin., Silton, Paul B.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Geographic subjects:
Albany (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146986
Title:
Manzanar Japanese Relocation Center.
Description:
The Japanese Relocation Center in Manzanar, CA.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146378
Title:
Campus Pepper newsletter.
Description:
Campus Pepper, Vol. II, No. 1, September 28, 1943. Written and published bi-monthly by Manzanar High School journalism students at the Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Manzanar, California.
Subject names:
Oltmans, Sarah Clarke, 1889-1991--Archives., Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
Asian American students--Pacific Coast (U.S.), Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California., Japanese Americans--Missions., Student newspapers and periodicals--California--Manzanar., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Incarceration camps--California.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146376
Title:
The Japanese in our midst, 1943.
Description:
Pamphlet published by the Colorado Council of Churches which questions the morality of holding Japanese Americans in incarceration camps.
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Pacific Coast (U.S.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146359
Title:
The Story of Japanese-American student relocation.
Description:
World Student Service Fund pamphlet which urges young Americans to come to the aid of Japanese American students by supporting the relocation efforts of the WSSF.
Topics:
Asian American students--Pacific Coast., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Pacific Coast (U.S.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146354
Title:
The Power of the State to Wage War and the Response of the Peace Movement, tape 1.
Description:
Dr. Johan Galtung, research fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, speaks at the International Peacemaking Consultation of Reformed Churches, Stony Point, May 17-21, 1987.
Creator:
Galtung, Johan Vincent, 1930- (speaker)
Topics:
Peace movements., War.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116395
Title:
The Power of the State to Wage War and the Response of the Peace Movement, tape 2.
Description:
Dr. Johan Galtung, research fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, speaks at the International Peacemaking Consultation of Reformed Churches, Stony Point, May 17-21, 1987.
Creator:
Galtung, Johan Vincent, 1930- (speaker)
Topics:
Peace movements., War.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116393
Title:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean H., 1926- (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116206
Title:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 2.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116205
Title:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 3.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.), Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116204
Title:
Dean Lewis interviewed by R. W. Bauer, 1983, side 1.
Description:
Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."
Creator:
Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (194th : 1982 : Hartford, Conn.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115623
Title:
The Rev. J. W. Alvord's Work in the Army.
Description:
American Tract Society: The Rev. J. W. Alvord's Work in the Army.
Subject names:
Alvord, John Watson, 1807-1880.
Geographic subjects:
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865--Chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83191
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Children stand beside a fence at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82986
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Street view of Manzanar incarceration Camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82985
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Sign for Protestant Church, Block 15, Building 15.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United Staes., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82984
Title:
Japanese American Incarceration Camp.
Description:
Two men and a woman sit around a table at a Japanese American incarceration camp.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82975

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