Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History

Introduction: philanthropy in America: historicism and its discontents Lawrence J. Friedman Part I. Giving and Caring in Early America, 1601-1861: 1. Giving in America: from charity to organised philanthropy Robert Gross 2. Protestant missionaries: pioneers of early American philanthropy Amanda Porterfield 3. The origins of Anglo-American sensibility G. J. Barker Benfield 4. The Dartmouth College case and the legal design of American philanthropy Mark McGarvie 5. Rethinking assimilation: American Indians and the practice of Christianity, 1800-1861 Stephen Warren 6. Antebellum reform: salvation, self-control, and social transformation Wendy Gamber Part II. The Nationalisation and Internationalising of American Philanthropy, 1861-1930: 7. Law, reconstruction, and African-American education in post-emancipation South Foy Finkenbine 8. Women and political culture Kathleen McCarthy 9. From gift to foundation: the philanthropic lives of Mrs Russell Sage Ruth Crocker 10. 'Curing evils at their source': the arrival of 'scientific giving' Judy Sealander 11. Missions to the world: philanthropy abroad Emily Rosenberg Part III. Philanthropic Reconstructions, 1930-2001: 12. Failure and resilience: pushing the limits in depression and wartime David Hammack 13. Faith and good works: catholic giving and taking Mary Oates 14. In defence of diversity: Jewish thought from assimilation to cultural pluralism Stephen Whitfield 15. Waging the Cold War in the third world: the foundations and the challenges of development Gary Hess 16. Philanthropy, the civil rights movement, and the politics of racial reform Claude Clegg 17. Philanthropy, the welfare state, and the careers of public and private institutions since 1945 Peter Hall Epilogue: The European Comparison William Cohen.