Pacifism 
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4/3/2022
Who Speaks for the World when Great Powers Flex Their Muscle?
by Lawrence Wittner
"Are the people of the world condemned to live forever under the heels of the great powers? Or is it still possible to take another step along the road to a peaceful, humane planet?"
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3/13/2022
Ukraine Shows We Need to Learn the History of Peace Movements to Break The Habit of War
by Charles F. Howlett
The history of peace movements, as opposed to fleeting opposition to particular wars, is needed today as never before.
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SOURCE: JStor Daily
9/30/2021
Masculinity, Pacifism and Politics: Abolitionist Parker Pillsbury
"Pillsbury and other Garrisonians despised the romanticization of male violence, perhaps partly because they were on the receiving end of so much of it. They derided white southern men as drunkards with a tendency to use harsh violence against both enslaved people and white women."
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/13/2020
Trump’s Doubts about the Military have Deep Roots in Both Parties
by Michael Kazin
Recent media discussions of Trump's remarks about war veterans and indifference to visiting a World War I memorial should prompt deeper thought about the antiwar movements of the right and left that the Great War created. Opposition to war can be rooted in very different values and advance different ends.
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9-2-14
Review of “Antiwar Dissent and Peace Action in World War I America,” Edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett
by Murray Polner
Every generation needs to be reminded of and taught the heavy price exacted by war.
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