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American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Overview
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional US peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose of the American Peace Society was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of...
Dates:
1828-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Massachusetts Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-020
Abstract
The Massachusetts Peace Society was first formed in 1815, and a new organization reformed in 1911. The records of both groups have been combined here to form one archival collection. The Massachusetts Peace Society (MPS)was the second [third?] such society to form in America on December 28, 1815, organized primarily by Noah Worcester (1758-1837), a Unitarian minister. By 1819 the MPS had over 850 members, with branches established throughout the state and beyond. The MPS...
Dates:
1816-1917; Majority of material found within 1911-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates:
1876-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 2
- Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
- American Peace League 1
- American Peace Society 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Beals, Charles Edward, 1869-1931 1
- Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1
- Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 1871-1954 1
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 1
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 1
- Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919 1
- Eckstein, Anna B., 1868-1947 1
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 1
- Hall, James Jabez, 1849-1921 1
- Haskins, Henry S. 1
- Hudson, Jay William, 1874- 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Ikemoto, Seichi 1
- International Peace Bureau 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
- Massachusetts Peace Society 1
- Nasmyth, George William, 1882-1920 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
- National Council of Women of the United States 1
- Paine, Robert Treat, 1900-1965 1
- Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, 1833-1931 1
- Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
- Phillips, Harry Clinton, 1880- 1
- Richard, Ernst D., 1859-1914 1
- Root, Robert Cromwell, 1858- 1
- School Peace League 1
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
- Short, William H. (William Harrison), 1868-1935 1
- Suttner, Bertha von, 1843-1914 1
- Trueblood, Sarah H. 1
- Tryon, James L. (James Libby), 1864-1958 1
- Weston, Stephen Francis, 1855-1935 1
- White, Frederick 1
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
- Winslow, Erving, 1839-1922 1
- Wolkins, Lyra Trueblood 1
- Woman's Peace Party 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
- Worcester, Noah, 1758-1837 1
- World Peace Foundation 1 ∧ less
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