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 --
/ 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.