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Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

Georgia Peace Society Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Georgia Peace Society
Dates: 1931-1937

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-147
Abstract

In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Dates: 1986 - Date; Majority of material found within 1986

Hague Appeal for Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-211
Abstract The Hague Appeal for Peace is an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace" through the following means: by strengthening humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions, by advancing the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of conflicts, by abolishing nuclear weapons and develop disarmament campaigns, and identifying the root causes of war. More than 800 organizations--human rights, environmental, gender, disarmament-- have endorsed the HAP...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1997-2007

Henry Ford Peace Expedition Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-018
Abstract On December 4, 1915, Henry Ford and over one hundred delegates and reporters left Hoboken, New Jersey, aboard the steamship Oscar II bound for Norway, and an itinerary of peace meetings in nonbelligerant Europe. The purpose of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition was the establishment of a conference of neutral nations which would seek to implement peace proposals through continuous mediation. Although Ford left the expedition at Christiana (Oslo) for health reasons, the delegation visited...
Dates: 1915-1916

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates: 1889-1958

Institute for World Order Grants Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-112
Scope and Contents

Minutes (1965-1978), scattered correspondence (1971-1978), memoranda, grant proposals with related reports and budgets, rough notes or transcripts of some committee meetings, and copy of Peace Money, final report of the program. Correspondents include Terrayne L. Crawford, Harry B. Hollins, Sidney P. Howell, Hattie K. Jutagir, Saul H. Mendlovitz, Earl Dodge Osborn, Betty A. Reardon, and A. Michael Washburn.

Dates: 1965-1978

Intercollegiate Peace Association Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Intercollegiate Peace Association
Dates: 1906-1950

International Association of the Friends of Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-International Association of the Friends of Peace
Abstract

Items held: letter dated April 25, 1913, and the Platform of the International Association.

Dates: 1913

International Peace Bureau Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Switzerland-International Peace Bureau
Abstract

Service secretariat acting as a record office, library, and agenda formulating committee for major world peace congresses; organized in 1891; founded in 1892; offices in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dates: 1889-

International Peace Forum Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-International Peace Forum
Dates: 1912-1915