Guy Aiken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1699655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Aiken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Aiken |
| SIGNATURE | AIKEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Feeding Germany: American Quakers in the Weimar Republic
“Children are always the first catastrophe of war.” – AFSC co-founder Rufus M. Jones On a bright and breezy October day near the end of the Great War, an imperious Quaker woman in a gray corduroy suit sat in her family home in Mt. Kisco, New York, and wrote a short note to her denomination’s fledgling “Service Committee.”1 She had a “concern,” she said—not especially for her fellow Americans or for any of the Allies, but for the notorious “Huns” …
The American Friends Service Committee's Mission to the Gestapo
The Night of Broken Glass (November 9–10, 1938) and its aftermath prompted the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ), a Quaker organization, to send a three‐man delegation to Berlin in December 1938 to intercede with the Nazi government on behalf of Germany's Jews. The delegation quickly learned from German Jewish leaders that emigration was more urgent than relief. It met with two of Reinhard Heydrich's lieutenants at the Gestapo on Decemb…
Social Christianity and the American Friends Service Committee's Pacifist Humanitarianism in Germany and Appalachia, 1919-1941
Educating Tocqueville. Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America
Without Jared Sparks and the Boston Whigs, we might not have Democracy in America (DIA). In Boston in late September and early October 1831, Tocqueville’s interviews with New World elites—former Federalists and National Republicans who would soon establish the Whig Party in America—put the Old World aristocrat in mind of Rousseau’s “habits of the heart.”
Educating Tocqueville: Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America
Educating TocquevilleJared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America Guy Aiken (bio) Without Jared Sparks and the Boston Whigs, we might not have Democracy in America (DIA). In Boston in late September and early October 1831, Tocqueville’s interviews with New World elites––former Federalists and National Republicans who would soon establish the Whig Party in America––put the Old World aristocrat in mind of Rousseau’s “habits of the heart…
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Educating Tocqueville. Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America
Without Jared Sparks and the Boston Whigs, we might not have Democracy in America (DIA). In Boston in late September and early October 1831, Tocqueville’s interviews with New World elites—former Federalists and National Republicans who would soon establish the Whig Party in America—put the Old World aristocrat in mind of Rousseau’s “habits of the heart.”
Educating Tocqueville: Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America
Educating TocquevilleJared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America Guy Aiken (bio) Without Jared Sparks and the Boston Whigs, we might not have Democracy in America (DIA). In Boston in late September and early October 1831, Tocqueville’s interviews with New World elites––former Federalists and National Republicans who would soon establish the Whig Party in America––put the Old World aristocrat in mind of Rousseau’s “habits of the heart…
The American Friends Service Committee's Mission to the Gestapo
The Night of Broken Glass (November 9–10, 1938) and its aftermath prompted the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ), a Quaker organization, to send a three‐man delegation to Berlin in December 1938 to intercede with the Nazi government on behalf of Germany's Jews. The delegation quickly learned from German Jewish leaders that emigration was more urgent than relief. It met with two of Reinhard Heydrich's lieutenants at the Gestapo on Decemb…
Social Christianity and the American Friends Service Committee's Pacifist Humanitarianism in Germany and Appalachia, 1919-1941
Feeding Germany: American Quakers in the Weimar Republic
“Children are always the first catastrophe of war.” – AFSC co-founder Rufus M. Jones On a bright and breezy October day near the end of the Great War, an imperious Quaker woman in a gray corduroy suit sat in her family home in Mt. Kisco, New York, and wrote a short note to her denomination’s fledgling “Service Committee.”1 She had a “concern,” she said—not especially for her fellow Americans or for any of the Allies, but for the notorious “Huns” …
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