PeaceDocs | Bibliography | North America, 1900–Present
CHAPTER 17: Peacemaking in North America, 1900-2008
General
1566. Adams, David. The American Peace Movements: History, Root Causes, and Future. New Haven, CT: Advocate Press, 1986.
1566.1. Alonso, Harriet Hyman. Peace As a Women’s Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights. Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
1566.2. —. “Peace and Women’s Issues in U.S. History.” OAH Magazine of History 8. 3 (1994): 20-25.
1566.3. —, and Robert Shaffer. “Peace As a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights.” Radical History Review 70 (1998): 156.
1567. American Friends Service Committee. Speak Truth to Power, A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence; a Study of International Conflict. 1955.
1567.1. American Peace Society. Women in the Peace Movement. Boston: American Peace Society, 1910
1568. Bennett, Scott H. Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963. Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
1569. Brock, Peter. Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
1570. —. Freedom from War: Nonsectarian Pacifism, 1814-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
1571. —. A History of Pacifism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
1572. —. Pacifism in the United States, From the Colonial Era to the First World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
1573. —. The Roots of War Resistance: Pacifism from the Early Church to Tolstoy. Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1981.
1574. —. Studies in Peace History. York, England: W. Sessions, 1991.
1575. —. Twentieth-Century Pacifism. New perspectives in political science, 26. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
1576. —. Varieties of Pacifism: A Survey from Antiquity to the Outset of the Twentieth Century. Toronto: P. Brock, 1998.
1577. Bush, Perry. Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
1578. Coakley, Robert W., Paul J. Scheips, and Emma J. Portuondo. Antiwar and Antimilitary Activities in the United States, 1846-1954. Washington, DC: Histories Division, Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army], 1970.
1579. Cooney, Robert, and Helen Michalowski. The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States. Culver City, CA: Peace Press, 1977.
1580. Curti, Merle Eugene. Peace or War: The American struggle 1636-1936. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland, 1972.
1581. DeBenedetti, Charles. Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
1582. Doenecke, Justus D. Anti-Intervention: A Bibliographical Introduction to Isolationism and Pacifism from World War I to the Early Cold War. New York: Garland, 1987.
1583. Dyck, Harvey L., and Peter Brock. The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
1584. Hawkley, Louise, and James C. Juhnke. Nonviolent America: History Through the Eyes of Peace. Cornelius H. Wedel historical series, 5. North Newton, KS: Bethel College, 1993.
1585. Heisey, Mary Jane. “Seeking Community: Brethren in Christ Nonresistance and American Society, 1914-1958. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). Syracuse University, 1998.
1586. Horsch, John. The Hutterian Brethren, 1528-1931, and The Principle of Nonresistance As Held by the Mennonite Church. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland, 1972.
1587. —. and Grant Stoltzfus. The Politics of Conscience: The Historic Peace Churches and America at War, 1917-1955. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1988.
1588. Kohn, Stephen M. Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1655 -1985. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986.
1589. Kosek, Joseph Kip. “Spectacles of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and the Transformation of American Democracy, 1914-1956. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). Yale University, 2004.
1590. Lehman, Christina Renee. “Blest Be the Tie That Binds: Mennonites, Conscientious Objectors, and the American State, 1917-1947. ” Thesis (Honors). Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2003.
1591. Lewy, Guenter. Peace & Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 1988.
1592. Lynd, Alice, and Staughton Lynd. Liberation Theology for Quakers. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1996.
1593. Lynd, Staughton. Nonviolence in America; A Documentary History. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
1594. —, and Alice Lynd. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.
1595. McAllister, Pam. Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1982.
1596. Mollin, Marian. Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest. Politics and culture in modern America. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
1597. Palo Alto Peace Club. The American Struggle for Peace. Palo Alto, CA: Palo Alto Peace Club, 1952.
1597.1 Polner, Murray, and Thomas E. Woods. We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
1598. Wachtell, Cynthia Jane. “War No More: The Emergence of American Anti-War Literature from the Civil War Through World War I.” Thesis (Ph.D.). Harvard University, 1998.
1599. Wittner, Lawrence S. Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1933-1983. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1984.
1600. Conscientious Objection on America: Primary Sources for Research. Curated by Anne M. Yoder. Swarthmore College Peace Collection. (Accessed 3/14/08).
World War I
1600.1. Alonso, Harriet Hyman. “Gender and Peace Politics in the First World War United States: The People's Council of America.” The International History Review. 19. 1 (1997): 83.
1600.2. —. “Finally: The War Resisters League.” Diplomatic History. 30. 1 (2006): 143–45.
1600.3. —. “To Make War Legally Impossible A Study of the Women's Peace Union, 1921-1942. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986.
1600.4. —. A Shared Responsibility: The Women and Men of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 1917-1919. S.l: s.n.], 1982.
1600.5. —. The Women’s Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
1600.6. —. Peace and War Issues: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Historical Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Periodicals Press, 1995.
1600.7. —. Bringing Outlawry to Washington: Senator Lynn Frazier and The Women’s Peace Union’s Constitutional Amendment. 1986.
1600.8. —. Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
1600.9. —. “Jane Addams: Thinking and Acting Locally and Globally.” Journal of Women’s History. 16. 1 (2004): 148–64.
1601. Black, Henry Campbell. The Great Conspiracy. Washington, DC: National Association for Constitutional Government, 1922.
1602. Chambers, John Whiteclay. The Eagle and the Dove: The American Peace Movement and United States Foreign Policy, 1900-1922. The Garland library of war and peace. New York: Garland Pub, 1976.
1603. Chatfield, Charles. World War I and the Liberal Pacifist in the United States. S.l: s.n, 1970.
1604. Chatfield, Charles. For Peace and Justice; Pacificism in America, 1914-1941. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1971.
1605. —. “Pacifism and American Life 1914 to 1941. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). Vanderbilt University, 1965.
1605.1. Curran, Jennifer. “To Make War Unthinkable: the Woman’s Peace Party of New York, 1914-1919. ” Peace Research Abstracts 38. 4 (2001): 451-600.
1605.2. Degen, Marie Louise. The History of the Women's Peace Party. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1939.
1606. Eagan, Eileen. Class, Culture, and the Classroom: The Student Peace Movement of the 1930s. American Civilization. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
1607. Early, Frances H. A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
1607.1. Forbes, Rose Dabney Malcolm. “War on War, Paper Read Before the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs at Somerville [Mass.] Feb. 26, 1915. ”
1607.2. Foster, Catherine. Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
1608. Friedman, Andrea S. “Feminist Pacifism During World War I: A Study of Ideology and Organization in the United States and Great Britain.” Thesis (M.A.). Ohio State University, 1985.
1608.1. Kramer, Margaret. The Women’s Pacifist Movement During World War One. Amherst, MA: [s.n.], 1983.
1608.2. Kreider, Angela. “To Love All That Pleases: Autobiography, Dialectic, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919-1939. ” Thesis (Ph. D.). Emory University, 2004.
1608.3. Kuhlman, E. “‘Women's Ways in War”: The Feminist Pacifism of the New York City Woman's Peace Party.” Frontiers-Boulder 18. 1 (1997): 80–100.
1609. Martin, James Parker. The American Peace Movement and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917. 1975.
1610. Moroi, Yuichi. “Ethics of Conviction and Civic Responsibility: Conscientious War Resisters in America During the World Wars.” Thesis (Ph.D.). Boston University, 2008.
1611. Pate, Alice Kay Fish. “American Pacifism During the First World War: A History of the People’s Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace, 1917-1919. ” Thesis (M.A.). Auburn University, 1986.
1612. Peterson, H.C., and Gilbert Courtland Fite. Opponents of War, 1917-1918. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
1613. Priestley, J.B. The Lost Generation. Washington, DC: Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, United States Section, 1930.
1614. Schmidt, August. “Pacifism in the United States During the World War.” Thesis (M.A.). University of Oklahoma, 1932.
1615. Schott, Linda Kay. “Women against War: Pacifism, Feminism, and Social Justice in the United States, 1915-1941. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). Stanford University, 1986.
1615.1. —. Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
1616. Shields, Sarah Dobin. The Treatment of Conscientious Objectors During World War I: Mennonites at Camp Funston. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society, 1981.
1616.1. Steinson, Barbara J. American Women’s Activism in World War I. Modern American History. New York: Garland, 1982.
1616.2. Van Wienen, M. “Women’s Ways in War: The Poetry and Politics of the Woman’s Peace Party, 1915-1917. ” Modern Fiction Studies 38. 3 (1992): 687.
1616.3. Zeiger, Susan. “Teaching Peace: Lessons from a Peace Studies Curriculum of the Progressive Era.” Peace & Change 25. 1 (2000).
1616.4. —. “The Schoolhouse Vs. the Armory: U.S. Teachers and the Campaign Against Militarism in the Schools, 1914–1918. ” Journal of Women's History 15. 2 (2003): 150–79.
1616.5. “‘Women's Ways in War”: The Feminist Pacifism of the New York City Woman’s Peace Party.” Contributions in Women’s Studies 160 (1997): 101.
World War II
1617. Brock, Peter. Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
1618. —. Pacifism Since 1914: An Annotated Reading List. Toronto: P. Brock, 2000.
1619. Eller, Cynthia. “Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism: Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War.” Thesis (Ph.D.). University of Southern California, 1988.
1620. Eller, Cynthia. Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism. New York: Praeger, 1991.
1621. Gara, Larry and Lenna Mae Gara. A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories. The Kent State University Press, Atlasbooks,1999.
1622. Goossen, Rachel Waltner. Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947. Gender & American culture. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
1623. Keim, Albert N. The CPS Story: An Illustrated History of Civilian Public Service. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 1990.
1624. Olinger, John C. A Place of Conscience: Camp Downey. Pocatello, ID: Idaho State University Press, 1991.
1625. Sareyan, Alex. The Turning Point: How Persons of Conscience Brought About Major Change in the Care of America's Mentally Ill. Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1994.
1626. —. Friends in Civilian Public Service: Quaker Conscientious Objectors in World War II Look Back and Ahead: A Conference, November 4-7, 1996. Wallingford, PA : Pendle Hill, 1998.
1627. Sibley, Mulford Q., and Philip Jacob. Conscription of Conscience: The American State and the Conscientious Objector. 1940-1947. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1952.
1628. Taylor, Jacqueline A. “Civilian Public Service in Waldport, Oregon 1941-1945: The State Faces Religion, Art and Pacifism.” Thesis (M.A.). University of Oregon, 1966.
1629. Taylor, Steven J. Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009.
1630. Tucker, Todd. The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
1945-Today
1630.1. Dion, Susan F. “Challenges to Cold War Orthodoxy: Women and Peace, 1945-1963. ” Thesis (Ph. D.). Marquette University, 1991.
1631. Hunsberger, Willard D. “A Bibliography of Pacifist Literature in the United States, 1948-1958. ” Thesis (M.A.). Florida State University, 1959.
1632. Ivie, Robert L. Dissent from War. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007.
1633. Kauffman, Ray, and Albert N. Keim. Reflections on Pax After Fifty Years: Oakwood Park, September 14-16, 2001. Occasional bulletin, no. 1. Albany, Ore: PAX Publication Committee, 2004.
1633.1. Mollin, Marian B. “Actions Louder Than Words: Gender and Political Activism in the American Radical Pacifist Movement, 1942-1972. ” Thesis (Ph.D.). University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000.
1634. Muste, A.J. (Abraham John), and N. Hentoff. The Essays of A.J. Muste. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
1635. —. A Pacifist Program-1949. New York: Fellowship Publications, 1949.
1636. —. What Would Pacifists Have Done About Hitler?: A Discussion of War, Dictators, and Pacifism. New York: Fellowship Publications, 1949.
1636.1. Pershing, Linda. The Ribbon Around the Pentagon: Peace by Piecemakers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
1637. Polner, Murray, et al. Contemporary American Pacifism: Ten Critics Review the Scene. Confrontation. 1981.
1637.1. Randall, Mercedes M. Improper Bostonian: Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1946. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964.
1638. Redekop, Calvin Wall. The Pax Story: Service in the Name of Christ, 1951-1976. Telford, PA: Pandora Press, 2001.
1639. Roberts, Nancy L. American Peace Writers, Editors, and Periodicals: A Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
1640. Scherer, Randy. The Anti-War Movement. American Social Movements. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2004.
1641. Schlabach, Theron F., and Richard T. Hughes. Proclaim Peace: Christian Pacifism from Unexpected Quarters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
1641.1. Swerdlow, Amy. Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s. Women in culture and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
1641.2. Taylor, Ethel Barol. We Made a Difference: My Personal Journey with Women Strike for Peace. Philadelphia, PA: Camino Books, 1998.
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