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American League to Limit Armaments Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American League to Limit Armaments
Dates:
December 18, 1914-circa 1915
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Neutral Conference Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Neutral Conference Committee
Dates:
1916-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace and Arbitration League Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Peace and Arbitration League
Dates:
1909-1914
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Abstract
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
American Peace Terms Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Peace Terms Committee
Dates:
1944-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace Test Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-197
Abstract
In 1985 six members of the National FREEZE Campaign founded American Peace Test as a direct, non violent action campaign to protest the testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, Nevada. The first large scale action took place in 1986, drawing large crowds of protesters. Protests throughout the 1980s continued to draw larger numbers of protesters and the support of some nationally known celebrities and politicians. In the early 1990s American Peace Test regrouped,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American People's Mobilization Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American People's Mobilization
Abstract
In 1940, the Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War sponsored an Emergency Peace Mobilization conference held in Chicago (Illinois). It was attended by over 20,000 people. Out of this conference came the American Peace Mobilization, a nonprofit organization which aimed to "keep us out of war and . . . preserve and extend our democracy." Over the months of its existence, the APM -- through its literature, lobbying efforts, and conferences -- continued to press for nonintervention...
Dates:
1940-1941
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American School Citizenship League Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American School Citizenship League
Abstract
Founded in 1908 by Fannie Fern Andrews, the American School Peace League was intended to promote peace by introducing principles of international justice and fraternity into the curricula of U.S. schools. The League distributed circulars, leaflets and booklets for classroom use, including poetry, endorsements for peace from statesmen and military leaders, accounts of peace activity, information regarding other peoples and cultures, and a series of programs designed to further the message of...
Dates:
1908-1930
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Servicemen's Union Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Servicemen's Union
Dates:
1969-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Society for Judicial Settlement...
Scope and Contents
Materials include programs of national and international conferences and reprints of speeches and articles. Also included are a paperback copy of transactions of the International Conference held in Washington, DC on December 15-17, 1910.
Dates:
1910-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection