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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
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

Christian Arbitration and Peace Society Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Christian Arbitration and Peace Society

Commission on the Coordination of Efforts for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Commission on the Coordination of Efforts...

Martha Schofield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview 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