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American Peace Society Records, 1828-1947
Collection: DG 003
Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: (610) 328-8557 (Curator)
Fax: (610) 328-8544
Email: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu (Curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
American Peace Society
Title
American Peace Society Records
Inclusive Dates
1828-1947
Call Number
DG 003
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
10 linear feet [papers only]
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 conciliation, arbitration, judicial methods, and other peaceful means of avoiding and adjusting differences among nations, to the end that right shall rule might in a law--governed world."
The headquarters of the Society moved in 1835 from Hartford, Connecticut to Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1911 to Washington, D.C., where it still had offices today (2009).
Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Alternate Form of Material
Yes, part of the collection is available on microfilm 68.1-68.13
Acquisitions Information
Purchased from American Peace Society 1930-1940; gift from Lyra Trueblood Wolkins 1939--1940, 1966; gift from Peter L. and Susan H. Steere 1989
Processing Information
Microfilmed material originally processed and arranged by donors Lyra Trueblood Wolkins and Peter Steere; other material processed and arranged by SCPC staff; and checklist revised and updated, by Anne Yoder, August 1997; this version of the finding aid created by Wendy E. Chmielewski, July 2009.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the American Peace Society Records (DG 003), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
See tripod record
Related Collections
CDG--A Papers of William Ladd
Massachusetts Peace Society Records(DG 020)
New York Peace Society Records (DG 026)
Pennsylvania Peace Society Records (DG 031)
American Peace Society photograph exhibit
Historical Background
William Ladd (1778-1841) suggested in the 1820s to the Maine Peace Society that the regional peace societies, which had grown up in the United States since 1815, 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]. Most local societies also became affiliated, with varying degrees of control from the national office. The political philosophy of the APS was never as radical or pacifist as some reformists would have liked, so some activists broke away to form new organizations, such as the New England Non-Resistance Society in the 1830s, and the Universal Peace Union in 1866. 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 conciliation, arbitration, judicial methods, and other peaceful means of avoiding and adjusting differences among nations, to the end that right shall rule might in a law-governed world."
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