Author: Cleveland E. DodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young Men's Christian associations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Y.M.C.A.
Author: Cleveland E. DodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young Men's Christian associations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Y. M. C. A.; a century at New York, 1852-1952
Author: Cleveland E. DodgeY.M.C.A.; Century at New York, 1852-1952 [by] Cleveland E. Dodge
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Author: Cleveland E. DodgeManhood Factories
Author: Paula LupkinPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648344
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt, these iconic buildings served as athletic centers and residential facilities for a rapidly growing urban male population. In Manhood Factories, Paula Lupkin goes behind the reserved Beaux-Arts facades of typical YMCA buildings constructed in this period to understand the urban anxieties, moral agendas, and conceptions of masculinity that guided their design, construction, and use. She shows that YMCA patrons like J. P. Morgan, Cyrus McCormick Jr., and John Wanamaker hoped to create "Christian clubhouses" that would counteract the corrupting influences of the city. At first designed by leading American architects, including James Renwick Jr. and William Le Baron Jenney, and then standardized by the YMCA's own building bureau, YMCAs combined elements of men's clubs, department stores, hotels, and Sunday schools. Every aspect of the building process was informed by this mission, Lupkin argues, from raising funds, selecting the site and the architect, determining the exterior style, arranging and furnishing interior spaces, and representing the buildings in postcards and other printed materials. Beginning with the early history of the YMCA and the construction of New York City's landmark Twenty-third Street YMCA of 1869, Lupkin follows the efforts of YMCA leaders to shape a modern yet moral public culture and even define class, race, ethnicity, and gender through its buildings. Illustrated with many rarely seen photographs, maps, and drawings, Manhood Factories offers a fascinating new perspective on a venerable institution and its place in America's cultural and architectural history.
Playing with God
Author: William J BakerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020448
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
A Sport-loving Society
Author: J. A. ManganPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780714682297
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.
The YMCA at 150
Author: Pamela BaylessPublisher: YMCA of Greater NY
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In 1852, a group of young men met in the neighborhood now known as SoHo and formed an association to help newcomers adapt to the bustling metropolis of New York. They formed the Young Men's Christian Association of New York. A year later, another YMCA took root across the East River in the sister city of Brooklyn. In 150 years, the YMCA has grown from its initial evangelical orientation to serve New Yorkers of all faiths, races, and classes, men and women alike. Today, in its many branches and in many more programs in neighborhoods and schools, the YMCA offers everything from health and educational courses to employment programs, child care, and residential accommodations in all corners of the city. This richly illustrated book is not only the definitive history of New York's YMCA. It is also a larger story of social change and organizational response to waves of immigrants, to war and depression, to struggles for opportunity and for racial, gender, and civil rights. From the eve of the Civil War to the aftermath September 11, 2002, the YMCA has been an essential part of the city's fabric. This book is the record of that achievement.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
One Hundred Years with Youth
Author: Adolph G. StuderHistory of American Physical Education and Sport
Author: Paula D. WelchPublisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description