20 research outputs found
Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War I
No full textThis history of how Woodrow Wilson attempted to keep the United States out of World War I is also an exercise in nostalgia for an era when Americans debated a war before the president launched one rather than afterward. The book states that Americans greeted Germany\u27s 1914 invasion of Belgium with horrified fascination, but with little sense of foreboding. Most citizens and President Woodrow Wilson favored the Allies, but wanted to remain neutral. The book recounts how this feeling gradually changed over two and a half years in response to Germany\u27s self-defeating actions, the foremost being the new submarine warfare, which, raising fears for the safety of passenger ships, was viewed by many as no less ghastly than terrorism is today. It paints portraits of leading figures, many now obscure, including Franklin Delano, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Jennings Bryan, plus the jumble of newspapers, magazines, organizations, diplomats, and propagandists who fought (at times literally) over this issue.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_military_history/1052/thumbnail.jp
Theologians of a New World Order: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Realists, 1920–1948. By Heather A. Warren. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. viii + 199 pp. $37.00 cloth.
No full textA Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War. By Gerald L. Sittser. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii + 317 pp. $39.95 cloth.
No full textEpiscopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. By Gardiner H. ShattuckJr. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xiii + 298 pp. Illustrated. $32.50 cloth.
No full textFor Peace and Justice: Pacifism in America, 1914–1941. By Charles Chatfield. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1971. Pp. 447, $11.95.)
No full textBuilding a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941–1993. By Mark Hulsether. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xl + 374 pp. $38.00 cloth.
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