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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:
Assembly delegates.
Description:
Assembly delegates Ed Smith, Rochester, N.Y.; Virginia Nebelsick, Emery, S.D., and Kyung Ho Lee of Seoul, South Korea, read news of war in Kyung's homeland.
Subject names:
Westminster Fellowship., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (162nd : 1950 : Cincinnati)
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Geographic subjects:
Cincinnati (Ohio)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7336
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:
Chaplain J. T. Harbert.
Description:
Ready for a "quick" service in the desert, Chaplain J. T. Harbert in "fatigues" (Calif. Desert).
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Camp and Church Activities--Archives., Harbert, Jason T., 1899-
Topics:
Chaplains--California.
Geographic subjects:
California.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5534
Title:
Christian Commission on battlefield.
Description:
Christian Commission on battlefield. [From Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1868, p. 793.]
Creator:
Harper & Brothers. (publisher)
Subject names:
United States Christian Commission.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7295
Title:
Church meeting before peace walk.
Description:
Church meeting before peace walk.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7653
Title:
Citizen's Volunteer Hospital.
Description:
Citizen's Volunteer Hospital, at Broad Street and Washington Avenue.
Topics:
Hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7292
Title:
Civil War battle.
Description:
Picked up on battleground near Fredericksburg. [From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper describing battles near Richmond, July 16, 1862, p. 266.]
Creator:
Forbes, Edwin. (artist)
Topics:
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865., Fredericksburg (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7074
Title:
Civil War illustration, Rebel Battery, Virginia.
Description:
[Tenney Family Papers, Civil War illustration, Rebel Battery, Virginia, July 16, 1862. From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, p. 265.]
Geographic subjects:
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865., Virginia.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7273
Title:
Civil War troops Tupelo.
Description:
Civil War troops Tupelo [p. 565].
Topics:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subjects:
Tupelo (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5633
Title:
Construction workers.
Description:
Construction workers in California.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
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:
California.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82625
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:
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.
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:
Dr. Edward L. R. Elson.
Description:
Portrait of Dr. Edward L. R. Elson.
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Portraits.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Chaplains--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5202
Title:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager.
Description:
Dr. Henry Steel Commager, Professor of American History at Amherst, speaks on U.S. policy in Vietnam in an address to the U.S. Conference on Church and Society, Detroit, 1967.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Department of Communication--Archives., Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998., United States Conference on Church and Society (1967 : Detroit, Mich.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Detroit (Mich.), United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8166
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Christmas 1946 - Santa Claus.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas--20th century., Community centers--Maine--Portland--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8018
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Children's Christmas party, December 1947.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Churches., Church war work.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7602
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Christmas 1946 - Christmas Tree.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Christmas--20th century., Community centers--Maine--Portland--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8081
Title:
God's favorite nation.
Description:
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Peter Marshall delivered at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, May 24, 1942.
Creator:
Marshall, Peter, 1902-1949. (author)
Subject names:
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topics:
Sermons, American--20th century., World War, 1939-1945--Sermons., Presbyterian Church--Sermons--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82930

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