PACIFISM IN THE UNITED STATES

Called a pioneer work of the first importance by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial t imes to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challe nges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular a ttention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reac tions of...[Read more]