Holy Humanitarians
American Evangelicals and Global Aid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James H Moorhead (Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1049-1049 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz098 |
| OpenAlex | W2915405915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Heather D. Curtis investigates what has previously been treated as little more than a footnote to the history of American humanitarianism. Most accounts of the years from 1890 to 1910 emphasize the growth of the American Red Cross (ARC) or the great foundations created by titans of wealth such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Olivia Sage. Curtis focuses on a religious magazine, the Christian Herald, founded in 1878 as the American counterpart to a British paper. After 1890 the publication was run by Louis Klopsch and T. De Witt Talmage who, within ten years, dramatically increased its circulation to 250,000—far and away the largest readership of the religious papers of the day. They also shaped it into a mighty engine for the promotion of international aid projects. Under their leadership, the Christian Herald sponsored fund raising on behalf of famine victims in Russia and for the destitute of New York City. It secured major contributions for the victims of Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and formed a partnership with the U.S. government to relieve suffering in Cuba during the revolution against Spain. Among other groups, only the ARC was in the same league with the Christian Herald in raising global aid; and the ARC had the advantage, after 1905, of receiving federal money
Ancient history · Armenian · Economic history · Famine · Genocide · Government (linguistics · League · Political science · History · Law · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |