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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:
George Teaz Jamieson interviewed by Alfreda Hinn, May 12, 1980.
Description:
George Teaz Jamieson was a Presbyterian chaplain, born 26 February 1907, died 4 September 1997.
Creator:
Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997. (interviewee), Hinn, Cora Alfreda Pence, 1908-1982. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Jamieson, George Teaz, 1907-1997.
Topics:
Military chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116474
Title:
Kenneth G. Neigh 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:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Topics:
Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116438
Title:
Kenneth G. Neigh 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:
Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116436
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:
The divine goodness displayed, in the American Revolution: a sermon preached in New York, December 11th, 1783.
Creator:
Rodgers, John, 1727-1811. (author)
Topics:
Sermons, American--18th century., Thanksgiving Day sermons--Early works to 1800.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sermons--Early works to 1800.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:75419
Title:
Chaplain Duffield, 1955.
Description:
Radio play on Revolutionary War service of George Duffield, aired May 16, 1955, produced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Broadcasting and Film Commission. Side 1: Chaplain Duffield, program 187, for broadcast the week of May 16, 1955. Episodes of the radio series, Let there be light.
Subject names:
Duffield, George, 1732-1790., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Department of Radio and Television., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission.
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:71697
Title:
Wayside Chapel interior.
Description:
Interior view of the Wayside Chapel.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--United States., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57389
Title:
Wayside Chapel.
Description:
The Wayside Chapel on the road, 1944.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Missions--United States., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57388
Title:
Wayside Chapel.
Description:
Presbyterian minister Douglas Noble (right) stands beside the Wayside Chapel, 1944.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--United States., World War, 1939-1945--War work--Presbyterian Church., Missions--United States.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57387

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