A in 1915, a group of women gathered in europe to try and find a way to stop world war one. It was the birth of the oldest womens Peace Organization in the world, the Womens International league for peace and freedom. This is their story. The end of the victorian age and the beginning of the 20th century brought about a flood movement for social change. Many people began actively struggling for control over their own lives. Settlementunions and civil libes organizations all grew out this tremendous and dynamic period. Women were profoundly in all these movements as well, fighting for their own rights. These feministbecaâ– meformidabled world of the early 1900s. Mildred Scott Olmsted has been a of the Womens International league since 1921. She has held variety of positions in the League United states section. I grew up a strong feminist. I grew up in a victorian type family and as i grew up my first ten years in victorian family in which they, my father was the head of a house and you
A in 1915, a group of women gathered in europe to try and find a way to stop world war one. It was the birth of the oldest womens Peace Organization in the world, the Womens International league for peace and freedom. This is their story. The end of the victorian age and the beginning of the 20th century brought about a flood movement for social change. Many people began actively struggling for control over their own lives. Settlement communities, labor unions and Civil Liberties organizations all grewic period. Women were profoundly in all these movements as well, fighting for their own rights. These feminists became formidable to the male dominated world of 1900s. Mildred Scott Olmsted has been a of the Womens International league since 1921. Shriety of positions in the league include. Executive director of the United States section. I grew up a strong feminist. I grew up in a victorian type family and as i grew up my first ten years in victorian family in which they, my father was t
Im delighted to see you all here tonight and to welcome you to this wonderful event and its my distinct plesher to introduce our evening speaker. And i tell them most of them are there because it university is ininterested in them. I tell my students that value of history lies in its ability to see us in a the past in such way that we can reimagine the present and the future. And that perspective can allow us to create a better world than the one in which we now inhabit. And this is precisely the gift that i think our speaker, Michael Kazen brings us to tonight and has shared with the readers of many of his books, such as it biography of Williams Jennings bryan, his place of the political left in American History and most relevantly, his recent study of American Peace activists in world war i. Hes a professor of history. He writes frequently for it new york times. Has lectured wisely in the United States, europe and japan and we are very lucky to have him here with us this evening. Ple
A board member and former president and Vice President of the peace history society. Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular resistance and towards a new conscientious objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the cornegy endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war socialists, anarchists and other political radicals bas
World history surveys to freshman, i tell the students, most of whom are there only because the university requires them, that the value of history lies in its ability for us to see the past in such a way that we can reimagine the present and the future. That perspective can allow us to create a better world than the one in which we now inhabit. This is the gift our speaker, Michael Kazin brings to us tonight and has shared with the readers of many of his books, such as his biography of William Jennings bryan, his account of the political place of the left in American History, and most relatively to this conference, his recent study of peace activists in world war i. He is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the editor of descent magazine. He writes for the new york times, foreign affairs, the nation, and the daily beast. He has written many books and lectured in the United States, europe, and japan and we are lucky to have him here this evening. Please join me in exten