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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:
Friendshipment information packet and publicity materials, 1975.
Description:
Promotional materials for Friendshipment, an American civilian campaign inspired by the need for humanitarian assistance in Vietnam after the war.
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service., Friendshipment (Campaign)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Religious aspects--Christianity., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Civilian relief., Humanitarian assistance, American--Vietnam.
Geographic subjects:
Vietnam.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280837
Title:
A North Vietnamese nun.
Description:
Hanoi -- A North Vietnamese nun, Ntuyen Tkhi Choung, looks sadly at signs of war in Hanoi. The city's workers, unlike the nun, all bear arms. Ringed with anti-aircraft guns and missile sites, the city is on a constant alert for air raids.
Creator:
Daily express (London, England) (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service, Archives.
Topics:
Nuns--Vietnam--Hanoi., War--Religious aspects--Catholic Church., Vietnam War, 1961-1975., War and society--Vietnam--Hanoi.
Geographic subjects:
Hanoi (Vietnam)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139021
Title:
French chaplains presenting message.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1918] French chaplains presenting message from French Protestant churches to Federal Council officials. From left to right: Chaplain Monod, Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council; Rev. Frank Mason North, President of the Federal Council; Chaplain Lauga.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Macfarland, Charles S., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Protestant Church--France--20th century., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8468
Title:
The Chaplain's Medal.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1920] The Chaplain's Medal.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Federal Council Bulletin., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Military chaplains--Medals., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8458
Title:
Letter to Robert E. Speer from President Woodrow Wilson.
Description:
Letter to Robert E. Speer from President Woodrow Wilson, August 3, 1918 [Facsimile]
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8410
Title:
In conference with the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, at his home. [Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 1, no. 8, September 1918].
Description:
In conference with the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, at his home. [Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 1, no. 8, September 1918.]
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Federal Council Bulletin., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8391
Title:
A Cablegram from General Pershing.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 1, no. 3, March 1918] A Cablegram from General Pershing Urging Increase of Chaplains.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., World War, 1914-1918--Chaplains., Military chaplains., Interdenominational cooperation.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8389
Title:
The Committee on the War and the Religious Outlook.
Description:
The Committee on the War and the Religious Outlook [Officers].
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934., Gilkey, Charles Whitney, 1882-1968., Committee on the War and the Religious Outlook (U.S.), Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8383
Title:
Religious Publicity Service.
Description:
Religious Publicity Service, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, clipsheet.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Religious Publicity Service., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8373
Title:
Religious Publicity Service.
Description:
Religious Publicity Service, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, clipsheet.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Religious Publicity Service., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8334
Title:
With the Commanding General of the Second French Army.
Description:
[Federal Council Bulletin, A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Inter-church Activities, vol. 1, no. 8, September 1918] 1. With the Commanding General of the Second French Army, after the Religious Service in the Citadel of Verdun. 2. Meeting at a French Y.M.C.A.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Periodicals., Federal Council Bulletin., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church., World War, 1914-1918--France--Verdun., Interdenominational cooperation.
Geographic subjects:
Verdun (France)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8307
Title:
Religious Publicity Service.
Description:
Religious Publicity Service, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, clipsheet.
Subject names:
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Religious Publicity Service., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8295
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:
Peace March in Atlanta.
Description:
Peace March in Atlanta on Easter Sunday, 1969 to honor the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death and call for an end to the Vietnam War.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Georgia--Atlanta.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8102
Title:
Speakers at an anti-war rally.
Description:
Speakers at an anti-war rally [From left: Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Henry Steel Commage, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. John C. Bennet].
Creator:
Goodwin, John C. (photographer)
Subject names:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Religious News Service--Archives., Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
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:8020
Title:
Youths pray for Vietnam peace, Seattle, Wash.
Description:
Youths pray for Vietnam peace, Seattle, Wash.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Anti-war demonstrations--United States--20th century., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8016
Title:
Sanctuary of conscience.
Description:
Sanctuary of conscience: David Hawk and other conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War link arms at the Union Theological Seminary prior to arrest.
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Hawk, David R.
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:7994
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:
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:
Union Avenue, Philadelphia.
Description:
[Union Avenue, Philadelphia, during the U.S. Sanitary's Commision's Great Central Fair.]
Creator:
R. Newell (Philadelphia, Pa.) (photographer)
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7039

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