War no more: three centuries of American antiwar and peace writing

Foreword / James Carroll

Introduction / Lawrence Rosenwald

"The tree of great peace" / Iroquois tradition

(from) The journal of John Woolman / John Woolman

(from) A plea for the poor / John Woolman

"I counted none my enemy" / Warner Mifflin

"An odd and singular man" / David Low Dodge

A plan of a peace-office for the United States / Benjamin Rush

(from) The book of Mormon / Joseph Smith Jr.

(from) War / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Declaration of sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838 / William Lloyd Garrison

The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The term non-resistance / Adin Ballou

Speech delivered at the anti-war meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847 / Theodore Parker

(from) Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War / Thomas Corwin

Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau

Nov. 30 to an absent wife / Obadiah Ethelbert Baker

(from) The record of a Quaker conscience : Cyrus Pringle's diary / Cyrus Pringle

Shiloh / Herman Melville

Reconciliation / Walt Whitman

A harvest of death / Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner

Appeal to womanhood throughout the world / Julia Ward Howe

Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce

War is kind / Stephen Crane

Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) / Mark Twain

The war prayer / Mark Twain

The moral equivalent of war / William James

Christians at war / John F. Kendrick

(from) Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter / Emma Goldman

Heroes / Ellen N. La Motte

The war and intellectuals / Randolph Bourne

Below the battle / Randolph Borne

Down by the river-side / Traditional (gospel)

To the president of Wellesley College / Emily Greene Balch

(from) Toward human unity or beyond nationalism / Emily Greene Balch

Address to the jury / Eugene V. Debs

An experiment in conscience / M. C. Otto

The Stierheim case / Walter Guest Kellogg

Scott Nearing reprieves democracy / Arturo Giovannitti

"There will come soft rains" / Sara Teasdale

Personal reactions during war / Jane Addams

1923 : in Europe / Reinhold Niebuhr

Dissent in United States vs. Schwimmer / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"i sing of Olaf glad and big" / E. E. Cummings

On trial / Floyd Dell

Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay

(from) Johnny got his gun / William Everson

(from) A field of broken stones / Lowell Naeve

Letter to President Roosevelt / Robert Lowell

To Local Board No. 63 / Bayard Rustin

A petition to the President of the United States / Leo Szilard

We go on record

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Dorothy Day

Wailing shall be in all streets / Kurt Vonnegut

(from) One war is enough / Edgar L. Jones

Epitaph : 1945 / Naomi Replansky

The conscientious objector / Karl Shapiro

To meet a friend / William Stafford

(from) The Danbury story / Howard Schoenfeld

Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949 / General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Last night I had the strangest dream / Ed McCurdy

August 2026 : there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury

A decent respect for human intelligence / Omar N. Bradley

Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area / Albert S. Bigelow

Two votes against war : 1917, 1941

(from) Zen telegrams / Paul Reps

Where have all the flowers gone? / Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson

A matter of freedom / Juanita Nelson

Southern peace walk : two issues or one? / Barbara Deming

(from) The strategy of tax refusal / Edmund Wilson

The future of nonviolence / David Dellinger

The war on Vietnam / Clinton Hopson and Joe Martin

The I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / Country Joe McDonald

Statement made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury / A. J. Muste

Statement on American policy in Vietnam / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Necessities (I) / Josephine Miles

(from) The moral outrage of Vietnam / Abraham Joshua Heschel

Of late / George Starbuck

Life at war / Denise Levertov

Making peace / Denise Levertov

Beyond Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Counting small-boned bodies / Robert Bly

The War Crimes Tribunal / James Baldwin

A young pacifist / Paul Goodman

A causerie at the military-industrial / Paul Goodman

(from) The armies of night / Norman Miller

(from) Mobilization! / contributors to WIN magazine

Dow shalt not kill / Howard Zinn

When the war is over / W. S. Merwin

Nonviolence does not - cannot - mean passivity / Thomas Merton

(from) War and the crisis of language / Thomas Merton

What would you do if? / Joan Baez

Poem / Muriel Rukeyser

"The business of America is war and it is time for a change" / Shirley Chisholm

The liberation of our people / Angela Davis

(from) The trial of the Catonsville Nine / Daniel Berrigan

I should be proud / Henry Cosby, Joe Hinton, and Pam Sawyer

(from) I refuse / J. K. Osborne

Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry

(from) Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic

(from) Winners and losers / Gloria Emerson

Terminal colloquy / Charles Martin

Cop tales : devastation / Grace Paley

Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / Grace Paley

"I was told it was necessary" / George Zabelka

Revolutionary violence : a dialogue / Yvonne Dilling and Mary Jo Bowman

(from) Born again radical / Don Benedict

The IRS' plan for the hereafter / Eugene J. McCarthy

"One race, the human race" / Wally Nelson

"Like the elders say" / Thomas Banyacya

The role of the military in the nuclear age / Gene R. La Rocque

(from) Pacifist : or, My war and Louis Lepke

Calvin and Hobbes : "How come we play war and not peace?" / Bill Watterson

To: Internal Revenue Service / Bernard Offen

War resister's song / Thomas McGrath

2527th birthday of the Buddha / Yusef Komunyakaa

On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien

(from) An atlas of the difficult world / Adrienne Rich

(from) Democracy from the heart / Gregory Nevala Calvert

The truth / William Heyen

The tracks / S. Brian Willson

Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye

The bombing of Baghdad / June Jordan

Hearts on fire / Gina Valdés

Fighting war / Barbara Ehrenreich

Not in our son's name / Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez

Speech on House Joint Resolution 64 / Barbara Lee

A pure, high note on anguish / Barbara Kingsolver

Weighing the costs of waging war in Iraq / Barack Obama

(from) No more unto the breach / Jonathan Schell

America's image in the world / Robert Byrd

March of death / Zack de la Rocha

Driving the bus : after the anti-war march / Minnie Bruce Pratt

Baghdad / Kent Johnson

Sadiq / Brian Turner

(from) Road from ar Ramadi / Camilo Mejía

I lost my son to a war I oppose. We were both doing our duty / Andrew J. Bacevich

For the fifty (who made PEACE with their bodies) / Philip Metres

That particular village / Austin Smith

Why I'm a pacifist : the dangerous myth of the good war / Nicholson Baker

An interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ / Anne Montgomery

(from) An honorable discharge / Mike Kirby

I cast my hook, I decide to make peace / Jane Hirschfield.