American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad

Ben Offiler is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research focuses on the role played by philanthropic NGOs in US-Iranian relations and international development in the Middle East during the Cold War. His first monograph, US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Shah, was published in 2015.Rachel Williams is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Her research focuses on the social and religious history of the American Civil War, with a particular emphasis on the role of civilian non-combatants in the Union war effort.

• List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Religion and Philanthropy Heaping Coals of Fire on the Enemy’s Head: the Political Uses of Christian Benevolence in the Civil War Rachel Williams“Ministry of Helpfulness”: Near East Relief and Protestant Philanthropic Secularism, 1915-1930 Scott P. LibsonPhilanthropy as Exchange: American Missionaries and the International Religious Liberty Debate Emma LongPart II: Cultural Networks Nineteenth-Century Abolition and the Unquiet Library: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Making of the “Celebrated Philanthropist”, Anthony Benezet Bridget BennettTowards a Cultural Counter-Establishment: Huntington Hartford and his Eponymous Foundation, 1948-1965 Karen Patricia HeathThe Ford Foundation’s Cultural Cold War in Berlin Amanda NiedfeldtPart III: Diplomacy and International DevelopmentWomen’s Educational Philanthropy and Civil-Society Diplomacy: Opposing US Legislation Prohibiting Japanese Immigration While Fundraising for a Tokyo Women’s College, 1900-1929 Linda L. JohnsonCultivating “Good Will” Through Rural Welfare: The Near East Foundation in Iran, 1943-1951 Ben OffilerFrom Books to Land Rovers: The Informal, Small Philanthropy of the AFL-CIO and the ICFTU in Africa During the Early Cold War Kevin E. GrimmPart IV: Challenging PhilanthropyIdentifying a Menace to the National Welfare: The Final Report of the United States Commission on Industrial Relation and the Progressive Era Critique of Philanthropic Foundations Margaret Nettesheim HoffmannKlanishness and American Fraternalism: Examining Charity and Philanthropy in the Second Ku Klux Klan Miguel HernandezBibliographyIndex

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad makes an essential contribution to understanding the diversity and complexity of Americans’ giving. Exploring a broad range of efforts to shape public priorities through philanthropy, this volume offers a fascinating examination of Americans’ ideas about community, moral responsibility, politics, inequality, and much more.