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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:
"Rubble" Church rises in Germany.
Description:
Pictured is a "Notkirche" (church built from rubble) at Mannheim-Waldhof, American zone of Germany, at the time of cornerstone-laying ceremonies.
Creator:
Thorrelson. (photographer)
Subject names:
World Council of Churches., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany., Cornerstone laying--Germany., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Germany., Interdenominational cooperation--Germany., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Germany--Buildings, structures, etc., Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147289
Title:
Abraham Lincoln.
Description:
[Abraham Lincoln.]
Creator:
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896. (photographer)
Subject names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Topics:
Presidents--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7320
Title:
An Easter sunrise service led by Chaplain Howard McNight Wilson.
Description:
An Easter sunrise service led by Chaplain Howard McNight Wilson near Bollington, Cheshire, England, 1944.
Subject names:
Wilson, Howard McKnight.
Geographic subjects:
Bollington (England)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8727
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:
BFM correspondence with Furloughed Korea Missionaries, 1940-3.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:48905
Title:
Baptism service for child of Army sergeant.
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives.
Topics:
Baptism.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5385
Title:
Burmese students.
Description:
A group of Burmese young people who came to Siam to work among their own people. They visited us at Prae [sic]. On Easter Sunday they dressed in their national costume, aren't they fine?
Creator:
Elder, Newton Carl, 1898-1988. (Creator)
Topics:
Missions--Thailand., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2590
Title:
Burmese students.
Description:
A group of Burmese young people who came to Siam to work among their own people. They visited us at Prae [sic]. On Easter Sunday they dressed in their national costume, aren't they fine?
Creator:
Elder, Newton Carl, 1898-1988.
Topics:
Missions--Thailand., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains., Students--Thailand., Burmese students--Foreign countries.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2591
Title:
Burmese students.
Description:
A group of Burmese young people who came to Siam to work among their own people. They visited us at Prae [sic]. On Easter Sunday they dressed in their national costume, aren't they fine?
Creator:
Elder, Newton Carl, 1898-1988. (creator)
Topics:
Missions--Thailand., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains., Students--Thailand., Burmese students--Foreign countries.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2592
Title:
Calvin Thielman, "Vietnam and the Christian Citizen," 24 March 1968.
Description:
Sermon and question-and-answer session on the Vietnam War, delivered at Rivermont Presbyterian Church (Lynchburg, Va.). Recorded by Mrs. R. McFerran Crowe. Calvin Thielman, born in Paris, Texas in 1930, was a longtime pastor of Montreat Presbyterian Church (Montreat, N.C.), chaplain of Montreat College, and associate of Billy Graham.
Creator:
Thielman, Calvin, 1930-2002. (speaker)
Subject names:
Rivermont Presbyterian Church (Lynchburg, Va.)
Topics:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Geographic subjects:
Lynchburg (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:57386
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 A. M. Stewart.
Description:
Chaplain A. M. Stewart.
Subject names:
Stewart, Alexander M., 1814-1875.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6817
Title:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel preaching to prisoners of war.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Military chaplains--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5557
Title:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel.
Description:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel asks for a show of hands of those wishing to know more about Christianity.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Voelkel, Harold.
Topics:
Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Military chaplains--South Korea.
Geographic subjects:
South Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5192
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:
Chaplain commissioning certificate.
Description:
Chaplain commissioning certificate.
Subject names:
Elson, Edward L. R. (Edward Lee Roy), 1906-1993--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5622
Title:
Chaplain's Report, Kojedo Prisoner of War Camp, 1951-52.
Topics:
Missions--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Church history--20th century., Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:46253
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

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