The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. They became the indulged home-and-hearth children of the post-Civil War era. They came of age as labor anarchists, campus rioters, and ambitious first graduates of black and women's colleges. In rising adulthood, they had an Awakening that had given birth to the Bible Belt, to Christian socialism, to Greenwich Village, to the Wobblies, and to renascent labor, temperance, and women's suffrage movements. Their young adults pursued rural populism, settlement house work, missionary crusades, and muckrake journalism. In midlife, their Decency brigades and fundamentalists imposed Prohibition, cracked down on immigration, and organized vice squads. In elderhood, they presided over the twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II. Their elder elite became the Wise Old Men who enacted a New Deal (and Social Security) for the benefit of youth, led a global war against fascism, and reaffirmed America's highest ideals during a transformative era in history. It has been suggested that Generations (book) be merged into this article or section. ... William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (ISBN 0688119123) and The Fourth Turning divide Anglo-American history into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history, and divide the saecula into generations by birth year, and classify generations and historical periods into four types each. ... Generation, also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln† Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,213,363 1,064,200 Casualties KIA: 110,100 Total dead: 359,500 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 74,500 Total dead: 198,500 Wounded: 137,000+  The American... Anarchism is derived from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (ruler, chief, king)). Anarchism as a political philosophy, is the belief that rulers, governments, and hierarchal social relationships are unnecessary and should be abolished, although there are differing interpretations of what this means. ... The approximate extent of the Bible Belt, indicated in red A Bible Belt is an area in which Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture. ... Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected, perhaps because one derives from the other. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is a famous international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. ... Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ... Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age twenty-nine, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II...

Place in Time

In Strauss and Howe's Generations categorization, The Missionaries' typical grandparents were of the Transcendental Generation. Their parents were of the Gilded Generation and Progressive Generation. Their children were of the Lost Generation and G.I. Generation; their typical grandchildren were of the Silent Generation. The Transcendental Generation is the name given by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1792 to 1821. ... The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. ...

23% of the Missionaries were immigrants; 1% were slaves at any point in their lives.

This generation is fully ancestral, with the last member of the Missionary Generation, the American Sarah Knauss, having died on December 30, 1999. Sarah Knauss Sarah DeRemer Knauss, born Sarah DeRemer Clark (September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was considered the worlds oldest person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death in 1999. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Prominent Americans

• 1860 William Jennings Bryan (1925)
• 1860 Jane Addams (1935)
• 1861 Frederick Jackson Turner (1932)
• 1863 Billy Sunday (1935)
• 1863 William Randolph Hearst (1951)
• 1865 John R. Mott (1955)
• 1868 W. E. B. DuBois (1963)
• 1869 Frank Lloyd Wright (1959)
• 1869 Emma Goldman (1940) (immigrant)
• 1871 Theodore Dreiser (1945)
• 1871 Orville Wright (1948)
• 1874 Charles Ives (1954)
• 1874 Honus Wagner (1955)
• 1875 Mary McLeod Bethune (1955)
• 1877 Edgar Cayce (1945)
• 1878 Isadora Duncan (1927)
• 1879 Albert Einstein (1955) (immigrant)
• 1879 Margaret Sanger (1966)
• 1880 Douglas MacArthur (1964)
• 1880 John Llewellyn Lewis (1969)
• 1880 H.L. Mencken (1956)
• 1880 Helen Keller (1968)
• 1880 George C. Marshall (1959)
• 1880 Christy Mathewson (1925)
• 1880 W.C. Fields (1946)
• 1882 Igor Stravinsky (1971) (immigrant)

The Missionaries had four U.S. Presidents: William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (ISBN 0688119123) and The Fourth Turning divide Anglo-American history into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history, and divide the saecula into generations by birth year, and classify generations and historical periods into four types each. ... The Awakening Generation is the name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1701 to 1723. ... The First Great Awakening was a religious movement among American colonial Protestants in the 1730s and 1740s. ... The Liberty Generation is that name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1724 to 1741. ... The Republican Generation is the name given to that generation of Americans born from 1742 to 1766 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Compromise Generation is that name given to the generation of Americans born from 1767 to 1791 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. ... The Transcendental Generation is the name given by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1792 to 1821. ... The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The Third Great Awakening was a period in American history from 1886 to 1908. ... The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. ... Interbellum Generation is a term sometimes used to denote persons born in the United States during the first decade of the 20th Century, often expressed specifically as the years 1901 through 1910. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The Greatest Generation is a term sometimes used to denote the younger half of what is often referred to as the G.I. Generation. ... The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World War I and World War II, particularly in North America, largely coinciding with the Roaring Twenties; with the rise of the Great Depression, the values of this age saw much decline. ... The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. ... A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographic popularizers have identified with birth years from the... The term Beat Generation refers to a certain group of American counter-culture writers of the 1950s whose writing reflected the new consciousness which became the groundwork for the social/cultural revolution of the 60s. ... Generation Jones, according to American social scientist Jonathan Pontell (born 1958), consists of those Americans born between the years 1954 and 1965 (inclusive). ... The Consciousness Revolution was a period of spiritual awakening in American history, according to Strauss and Howe in their books Generations and Fourth Turning. ... Baby Busters is a name for a demographic group born in the United States, and sometimes Canada, from 1958 through 1968. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... The MTV Generation is a term describing a generation gap or sub-generation that includes the end of the Generation X (a generation following the Baby Boom, especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s) yet importantly includes the elders of Generation Y (a generation considered to follow... The term Culture Wars has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since the 1960s, but especially beginning in the 1980s. ... Boomerang Generation is a term not uncommonly used to describe the current generation of young adults in contemporary western culture, having been born between the years of roughly 1981-1986 and possibly later than 1986. ... Generation Y is the cohort of Americans born immediately after Generation X, though the term is itself controversial and is synonymous with several alternative terms including The Net Generation, Millennials and Echo Boomers. ... iGeneration is a term used to describe the generation born primarily in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... The New Silent Generation is a proposed holding name used by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their demographic history of America, Generations to describe the generation whose birth years begin in 2001 and continue to an as yet unknown year in the future. ... The Crisis of 2020 is a conflict predicted by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations and Fourth Turning. ... William Jennings Bryan, 1907 William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860–July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, statesman, and politician. ... Jane Addams Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American social worker, sociologist, philosopher and reformer, known in America as the mother of social work. // Biography Born in Cedarville, Illinois, .Jane Addams was educated in the United States and Europe, graduating from the Rockford Female Seminary (now... Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861–1932) was, with Charles A. Beard, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. ... Billy Sunday William Ashley Billy Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was noted first as a professional baseball player, and then more famous evangelist. ... William Randolph Hearst William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. ... John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865 - January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace. ... W. E. B. DuBois William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an African-American civil rights activist, sociologist, freemason, and scholar. ... Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century. ... Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. ... Theodore Dreiser, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. ... Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948), the younger of the Wright brothers, seen as one of the fathers of heavier-than-air flight. ... This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ... Honus Wagner John Peter Honus Wagner (February 24, 1874 - December 6, 1955) is considered by many to have been the greatest shortstop ever to play major league baseball. ... Mary McLeod Bethune For the wife of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, see Mary Bethune Abbott Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955), born to former slaves a decade after the end of the American Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom... Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced ) was an American psychic who channeled answers to questions on subjects such as astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in trance. ... Portrait photograph by Arnold Genthe. ... Albert Einstein photographed by Oren J. Turner in 1947. ... Margaret Sanger. ... Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was a senior American military leader in the Pacific Theater who served in World War II. MacArthur helped rebuild Japan after the war, and played a key role in limiting the Communist takeover of Korea with his daring Inchon landing. ... John L. Lewis John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 - June 11, 1969) was a labor leader, and served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from 1920 to 1960. ... H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was a twentieth century journalist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th... Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. ... George C. Marshall George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880–October 16, 1959), an American military leader and statesman, was born into a middle-class family in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. ... Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants at West Side Park in Chicago, Illinois. ... W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. ... Igor Stravinsky in his middle ages. ...

• 1865 Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923 (1923)
• 1872 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 (1933)
• 1874 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 (1964)
• 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 (1945)

They held a plurality in the House of Representatives from 1909 to 1937, a plurality in the Senate from 1917 to 1943, and a majority of the Supreme Court from 1925 to 1943. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. ... John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Sample cultural endowments

• Intolerance (film, D. W. Griffith)
• "Into My Own" (Robert Frost)
• Prejudices (H. L. Mencken)
• Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
• Will Rogers' syndicated column
• The Shame of the Cities (Lincoln Steffens)
• Living My Life (Emma Goldman)
• "What I Believe" (E.M. Forster)
• Women and the New Race (Margaret Sanger)
• Beale Street Blues (W. C. Handy)
• The Souls of Black Folk (W. E. B. DuBois)
• "I Am the People, the Mob" (Carl Sandburg)
• The Last Puritan (George Santayana)

Intolerance is a silent film directed by D.W. Griffith in 1916. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the... Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than by hard work and perseverance. ... Theodore Dreiser, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. ... Will Rogers. ... The Shame of the Cities was a work published in 1904 by Lincoln Steffens that sought to expose public corruption in many major cities throughout the United States. ... Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866–August 9, 1936), American journalist, was one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. ... Living My Life is the thousand-page autobiography of Emma Goldman, published in two volumes in 1931 (Alfred A. Knopf) and 1934 (Garden City Publishing Company). ... Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. ... What I Believe is an essay by E.M. Forster in which he outlines his creed as a secular humanist. ... Edward Morgan Forster (January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970) was an English novelist. ... Margaret Sanger. ... W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873–March 28, 1958) was a African American blues composer and musician, often known as the Father of the Blues. ... This article contains weasel words, which may compromise its neutrality. ... W. E. B. DuBois William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an African-American civil rights activist, sociologist, freemason, and scholar. ... Time magazine, December 4, 1939 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ... George Santayana George Santayana (16 December 1863 – 26 September 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist. ...

Prominent non-U.S. Peers

• Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
• Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
• Maurice Blondel (1861-1949)
• Billy Hughes (1862-1952)
• Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
• Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
• Claude Debussy (1865-1917)
• Wassili Kandinsky (1866-1944)
• Sun Yat Sen (1866-1925)
• Maria Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934)
• Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
• Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918)
• Fritz Haber (1868-1934)
• Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
• Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
• Christian X of Denmark (1870-1947)
• V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
• Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
• Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
• Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
• Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
• Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1936)
• Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
• Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
• Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
• Aleister Crowley (1875-1847)
• Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) (1876-1958)
• Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)
• Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878-1944)
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
• Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
• Alfred Wegener (1880-1930)
• Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938)
• Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) (1881-1963)
• James Joyce (1882-1941)