Role of the YMCA in World War I
Author | : YMCA. |
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Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : YMCA. |
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Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Copeland |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498548210 |
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA’s efforts during the World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion of support to soldiers and civilians around the world. The YMCA deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to support suffering civilians and ease soldiers’ wartime hardships. Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in an international and comparative perspective from scholars around the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the World Wars.
Author | : William Howard Taft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Jenny Thompson |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595403360 |
My Hut chronicles the experiences of a YMCA secretary in France during World War One. In September 1917, William Levere sailed for France as a YMCA volunteer. Throughout the war, Levere ran a canteen for soldiers in the town of Neufchâteau, a hub of activity for the American Expeditionary Forces. He also traveled throughout the region, visiting troops along the front lines. After the Armistice, he continued his YMCA work for the U.S. Army of Occupation in Andernach, Germany. Published for the first time nearly eight decades after it was written, My Hut is Levere's own memoir of his days of service. It brings to life the overseas adventures of one American man who sought to take part in history.
Author | : American Y. M. C. A. |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781437090956 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Andrew Gill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2016-11-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540679543 |
The First World War has been the subject of countless books, films and TV documentaries but only occasionally is the work of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) mentioned and the importance of its contribution recognised. The Association played a vital role at home and abroad in supporting British and Allied troops and others involved in the war effort, such as munitions workers. The services provided by the YMCA were highly valued by soldiers, sailors and their families and war workers on the home front. In essence, the Association supplied home comforts ..... a meal, drink, help to write a letter home, entertainment, companionship or just a friendly smile ..... in 'huts' located wherever they were needed in the theatre of war. This 53 page booklet is in two parts, giving modern and contemporary perspectives. The first is by Sue McGeever with particular focus on the role of the YMCA's Women's Auxiliary. The second part comprises extracts from a book written in 1919 by Sir Arthur Yapp, the General Secretary of the YMCA. His words bring home very forcibly the conditions the troops and volunteers faced and their feelings about the Association's work. The 26 illustrations and photographs are taken from original 'magic lantern' projection slides owned by the Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive.This booklet is not intended to be an authoritative or definitive source of information. It is a snapshot of the contribution made by thousands of men and women who volunteered for duty during WW1 and worked selflessly and tirelessly, often in danger and discomfort, to support those who were fighting on the front line and working on the home front for their King and Country.
Author | : Harald Fischer-Tiné |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-11-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824884612 |
A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement defined its global mission in 1889. Although their agendas have been characterized as predominantly religious, both the YMCA and YWCA were also known for their new vision of a global civil society and became major agents in the worldwide dissemination of modern “Western” bodies of knowledge. The YMCA’s and YWCA’s “secular” social work was partly rooted in the Anglo-American notions of the “social gospel” that became popular during the 1890s. The Christian lay organizations’ vision of a “Protestant Modernity” increasingly globalized their “secular” social work that transformed notions of science, humanitarianism, sports, urban citizenship, agriculture, and gender relations. Spreading Protestant Modernity shows how the YMCA and YWCA became crucial in circulating various forms of knowledge and practices that were related to this vision, and how their work was co-opted by governments and rival NGOs eager to achieve similar ends. The studies assembled in this collection explore the influence of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. Focusing on two of the most prominent representative groups within the Protestant youth, social service, and missionary societies (the so-called “Protestant International”), the book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today’s world. Spreading Protestant Modernity offers a compelling read for those interested in global history, the history of colonialism and decolonization, the history of Protestant internationalism, and the trajectories of global civil society. While each study is based on rigorous scholarship, the discussion and analyses are in accessible language that allows everyone from undergraduate students to advanced academics to appreciate the Y movement’s role in social transformations across the world.
Author | : Jonathan H. Ebel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2014-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691162182 |
Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission. And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not fundamentally alter them. Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, Faith in the Fight argues that the war in fact strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of "reillusionment." Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, Faith in the Fight encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding of religion and violence in American history.
Author | : Lettie Gavin |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2011-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1457109409 |
Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. American Women in World War I captures the spirit of these determined patriots and their times for every reader and will be of special interest to military, women's, and social historians.