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Peace Studies

The Hawleys, Opposition to the War of 1812 and the Church of the Presidents

November 27, 2023 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley, Self-portrait, water color, Paris, 1897, private collectionThe American artist Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (Perth Amboy, NJ 1860 – Rijsoord, Netherlands 1958), my great-grandmother, lived a long and interesting life. Her artistic career and family history has fascinated me since I was a young girl.

Wilhelmina’s ancestors were English and Scottish migrants, who moved to the east coast of the United States and Canada in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. [Read more…] about The Hawleys, Opposition to the War of 1812 and the Church of the Presidents

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Abolition, Art History, Black Lives Matter, Dutch History, French History, Manhattan, Military History, Netherlands, New Jersey, New York State, painting, Peace Studies, Religious History, War of 1812, Washington D.C.

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton & The Hague Women’s Congress

April 26, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Aletta Jacobs in BerlinBerlin, May 1915. Three feminists on an historical mission — Jane Addams and New York native Alice Hamilton from the United States, and Aletta Jacobs from the Netherlands — meet Wilbur H. Durborough. The American photographer and filmmaker had traveled to Berlin with his cameraman, Irving G. Ries, to shoot footage for his war documentary On the Firing Line with the Germans (1915). [Read more…] about Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton & The Hague Women’s Congress

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Alice Hamilton, Chicago, Documentary, Dutch History, feminism, film, Film History, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Netherlands, Pacifism, Peace Studies, Political History, poverty, Suffrage Movement, Women, womens history, Woodrow Wilson, World War One

David Lowe Dodge: The Merchant Peacemaker

January 24, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

David Lowe Dodge by Charles HowlettWhile carrying a large sum of money on a business trip in 1805, the well-to-do city of New York merchant, David Low Dodge, who had been fast asleep in a tavern, was suddenly awakened by the noise of someone jiggling the lock to his bedroom door. Startled by the rattling doorknob and as the door slowly opened, Dodge, not taking any chances, quietly turned and reached for the pistol he always carried for protection.

And then, just before he was about to discharge his pistol, he recognized the suspected intruder as the innkeeper who had come to prepare the room for other guests. [Read more…] about David Lowe Dodge: The Merchant Peacemaker

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: New York City, New York State Archives, NY Archives Magazine, Pacifism, Peace Studies, Religious History, War of 1812

The Red Scare: A Personal History

June 29, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall 2 Comments

New York Times, May 1948 The Seagle Festival will present the contemporary opera “Fellow Travelers” in Schroon Lake, NY August 3rd through 6th.

“Fellow Travelers” is set in the Washington, DC of the 1950s, as the anti-communist crusades of Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy and their ilk infiltrate and all but overwhelm every department, agency and office in government.

I can not help but reminded of my own family’s experience with “the Red Scare” during the administration of President Harry Truman. [Read more…] about The Red Scare: A Personal History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Harry Truman, Journalism, Lake George, Peace Studies, Political History, Sarah Lawrence College, Social History, Socialism, Warren County, World War Two

John Hersey and the Hiroshima Cover-up

June 7, 2021 by Lawrence Wittner Leave a Comment

falloutIn Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Simon & Schuster, 2020), a crisply-written, well-researched book, Lesley Blume, a journalist and biographer, tells the fascinating story of the background to John Hersey’s path-breaking article “Hiroshima” and of its extraordinary impact upon the world.

In 1945, although only 30 years of age, Hersey was a very prominent war correspondent for Time magazine — a key part of publisher Henry Luce’s magazine empire — and living in the fast lane. That year, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, A Bell for Adano, which had already been adapted into a movie and a Broadway play. Born the son of missionaries in China, Hersey had been educated at upper class, elite institutions, including the Hotchkiss School, Yale, and Cambridge. During the war, Hersey’s wife, Frances Ann, a former lover of young Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, arranged for the three of them to get together over dinner. Kennedy impressed Hersey with the story of how he saved his surviving crew members after a Japanese destroyer rammed his boat, PT-109. This led to a dramatic article by Hersey on the subject — one rejected by the Luce publications but published by the New Yorker. The article launched Kennedy on his political career and, as it turned out, provided Hersey with the bridge to a new employer – the one that sent him on his historic mission to Japan. [Read more…] about John Hersey and the Hiroshima Cover-up

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Books, Crime and Justice, First Amendment, Military History, Peace Studies, Publishing, Radio History, World War Two

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