Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Christian Arbitration and Peace Society Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Christian Arbitration and Peace Society
Dates:
1886-1895
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Commission on the Coordination of Efforts for Peace Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Commission on the Coordination of Efforts...
Dates:
1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Abstract
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
Wisconsin Peace Society Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wisconsin Peace Society
Dates:
1912-1937; Majority of material found within 1917-1920
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
