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Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

Emily Greene Balch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-006
Abstract Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her...
Dates: 1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract

Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Dates: 1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954

Committee on Militarism in Education Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-009
Abstract Includes minutes of the executive committee, annual reports, correspondence (1925-1940), financial records, form letters, articles and manuscripts, pamphlets, CME periodicals and other publications, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subject files provide state-by-state coverage of the U.S. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Citizens Military Training Corps (CMTC) and Civilian Conservation Corps, and congressional anti-conscription campaigns. Correspondents include Devere Allen,...
Dates: 1925-1940

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates: 1889-1958

Ludwig Quidde Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Germany-Quidde, Ludwig
Overview

Ludwig Quidde, editor and historian, was elected president of the German Peace Society in 1914, a position he held for fifteen years. He was the winner of the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Ferdinand Buisson of France.

Dates: 1881-1941

Rogerenes of New England Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-053
Overview

The Rogerenes of New England collection contains research materials and some original manuscript and published works by the Rogerenes which were collected by Ellen Starr Brinton during her tenure as Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 1935-1951. She wrote several articles on the sect and compiled an extensive bibliography of sources.

Dates: 1817 - 1991

Rogerenes of New England photograph collection

 Collection — Othertype PA-090
Identifier: SFHL-PA-090
Overview

This collection consists of images relating to the Rogerenes, a pacifist religious sect founded by John Rogers (1648-1721) in New England in the late 1670s. These materials were collected by Ellen Starr Brinton during her tenure as Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection (1935-1951); she wrote several articles on the Rogerenes and compiled an extensive bibliography of sources.

Dates: 1940

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Subject
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- Societies, etc. 2
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Rogerenes 2
Peace movements -- New England -- History -- Sources 2
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Rogerenes 2
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Draft 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Militarism 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Military education 1
Military education -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Militia 1
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political refugees -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States 1
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba 1
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico 1
United States -- Militia -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Suffrage -- History -- Sources 1
Women Nobel Prize winners -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace 1
Women social reformers -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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