Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Akron Council for Peace Action Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Akron Council for Peace Action
Dates:
1936-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Albert Einstein Institution Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-220
Abstract
The Albert Einstein Institution was founded in 1983 and is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action. The principle founder of the Albert Einstein Institution is Dr. Gene Sharp. To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects, actively consulted with resistance and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1974 -
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Interorganization Council in Geneva Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Switzerland-American Interorganization Council
Dates:
1932-1939
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 Union for Concerted Peace Efforts Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts
Scope and Contents
Includes the periodical Toward World Cooperation.
Dates:
1938-1939
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Youth Congress Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Youth Congress
Dates:
circa 1934-1941
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Archives of the Fellowship of Reconciliation : [microform]
Collection — Othertype Reels 131.1-131.9
Identifier: SCPC-Reels-131.1-131.9
Dates:
1915-1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
