"Our national anthem celebrates heroism under fire, and martial imagery permeates our politics and our pastimes. But at every turn in this history, Americans have questioned and resisted both particular wars and justifications for war in general. Taking up the pen instead of the sword, they have produced a body of literature of great passion and power ... Gathering essays, letters, speeches, memoirs, songs, poems, cartoons, leaflets, stories, and other works by nearly 150 writers from the colonial era to the present, War no more brings this extraordinary writing together for the first time in a single volume"--
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War no more: three centuries of American antiwar and peace writing
2016, The Library Of America
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Table of Contents
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... -- 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.
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