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PHS News Recommendations 1 completed their deliberations and made their PHS News recommendations. I hope you will join me in thanking all the members of those July 2017 committees for the important work they have done so well. This includes: DeBenedetti Prize Committee: Rachel Newsletter of the Waltner Goossen (Chair), Andy Barbero, Peace History Society and Erika Kuhlman www.peacehistorysociety.org Scott Bills Prize Committee: Kevin Callahan (Chair), Chuck Howlett, and Elizabeth Agnew Elise Boulding Prize Committee: Mona Siegel (Chair), Michael Clinton, Doug Rossinow Lifetime Achievement Award Committee: Robbie Lieberman (Chair), Leilah Danielson, and Scott Bennett In 2015 I served on the Scott Bills Prize Committee and two of the things I took away from that experience were, first, the conscientiousness and hard work that the committee members put into their President’s Column considerations and second, the impressive array of work that is being done by many different scholars in furthering the study of peace. It gives me hope in a time when hope is sometimes hard to find. The prize winners will be announced at our fall conference in October. This brings me to more good work that members of the Society are doing. “Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today” will take place October 19-22, 2017 at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. This promises to be a stimulating and enriching event that includes a musical performance, keynote addresses, paper presentations, and Deborah Buffton a memorial service remembering Although we are fully into summer, the Peace History Society continues to be Table of Contents – see page 3 busy with its work. I am pleased to report that all of the awards committees have PHS News, July 2017 2 conscientious objectors who died in Fort American Historical Association Leavenworth Prison as a result of standing conference in January 2018. The film, In up for their principles. We would like to Our Son's Name: A Family Responds to extend special thanks to David Hostetter and 9/11, deals with Phyllis and Orlando Andrew Bolton for their hard work in Rodríguez, whose son, Greg, died along helping to bring this program together. with so many others in the World Trade Registration is now open; the early bird Center on September 11, 2001. The registration rate is good until September 8 bereaved parents chose reconciliation and and special conference rates on hotels will nonviolence over vengeance and embarked be offered only through mid-September, so on a transformative journey that both please register soon! All the details on the confirmed and challenged their convictions. conference program, transportation and This is just a small sampling of the lodging can be found by going to the PHS various work members of our Society are website, www.peacehistorysociety.org, and doing to promote the teaching and clicking on “PHS Conferences” on the left, understanding of peace history. Although it or by going directly to the conference is easy sometimes to dismiss what we do website: and assume that it does not matter, in fact it www.theworldwar.org/mutedvoices. matters a great deal. Whether we see Another project for the PHS is the immediate results of our actions or not, our collaboration with the Journal of smallest acts contribute to making the world American History about Teaching Peace more peaceful and just. History. Our thanks go to Chuck Howlett If you have ideas for other things our both for suggesting the idea in the first place society might be involved in, I would be and for taking on the leadership of this delighted to hear from you. You can send exciting project. Chuck has received a me an email at [email protected] or call number of proposals that he will send to the 608-785-8359. co-editors of the JAH’s Textbooks and I hope you enjoy the rest of the Teaching Section for their consideration. summer and I look forward to seeing many Submitted proposals so far include some of you in Kansas City! very interesting teaching strategies, such as an overview of teaching the chronological With warm wishes, dimensions of peace activism through Deborah Buffton drama, the challenges and opportunities University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse associated with teaching the Vietnam President, Peace History Society Antiwar Movement, addressing the issue of partisanship through teaching peace and justice in the U.S. survey course, connecting PHS Biennial conference, 2017 students to peace history through role- (Co-sponsored with other organizations): playing simulation games, and teaching peace history through music. The ultimate Remembering Muted Voices: result will be a special section theme about Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil the pedagogy of Peace History appearing in Liberties in World War I through Today one of the most important journals on October 19-22, 2017 American history today. National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial Finally, we are also co-sponsoring a Kansas City, MO, USA film screening and panel discussion at the See page 4 for more information PHS News, July 2017 3 Peace History Society Officers and International Advisory Council: Kevin Clements (New Zealand) Board Members, 2017 Elena Diez Jorge (Spain) Anne Kjelling (Norway President: Deborah Buffton, Martin Klimke (Germany) University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse Nadine Lubelski-Bernard (Belgium) Vice President: Andrew Barbero, Margarita Sanchez Romero (Spain) Pensacola State University Ralph Summy (Australia) Treasurer: Michael Clinton, Takao Takahara (Japan) Gwynedd Mercy University Peter van den Dungen (Britain) Secretary: Shelley E. Rose Kazuyo Yamane (Japan) Cleveland State University Nigel Young (Britain) Benjamin Ziemann (Germany, Britain) Board of Directors: Elizabeth Agnew, Ball State University Scott Bennett, Georgian Court University Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University PHS News, July 2017 Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University Table of Contents Chuck Howlett, Molloy College, emeritus Seth Kershner, Northwestern Connecticut 1-2: President’s Report, by Deborah Buffton Community College 4-6: “Remembering Muted Voices”: Eric Morgan, Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay PHS 2017 biennial conference Ben Peters, University of Saint Joseph, Conn. 7-8: PHS Endorses AHA Statement against Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy Trump’s Travel Ban Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University 9-12: Conference Report: Two Centuries of Mona Siegel, Calif. State Univ., Sacramento Peacemaking, Newcastle, June 2016 R.L. Updegrove, Duluth East H.S., Minnesota by Mike Clinton Andy Wilson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 13: Website Update: United States Foreign Policy: History and Resource Guide Ex-officio members: by Roger Peace Past President: Kevin J. Callahan, University of 14: People Power, Fighting for Peace: Saint Joseph, Conn. Imperial War Museums Exhibit Editor, Peace & Change: Heather Fryer, 15-18: Elise Boulding: The Namesake of PHS’s Creighton University Newest Prize Swarthmore College Peace Collection: 18: Nat Hentoff, 1925-2017 Wendy Chmielewski, Swarthmore College 19-20: From the Archives: Web Editor: Marc Becker, Truman State “ROTC Off Campus” – in 1951 University WILPF/US and Refugees, 1938 21-22: Deep Cuts: Decades-Old Peace & U.N. representative: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Change Articles Worth Another Look John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center 23: Opposition to War: Encyclopedia update 24-25: Historians for Peace and Democracy Newsletter Editor: 25-28: Anticipating PBS’s New “The Vietnam Robert Shaffer, Shippensburg University War,” by Camillo Mac Bica [email protected] 29-39: In Memoriam: Tom Hayden, Marilyn Young, Marvin Gettleman, Karl Holl 40-41: AFSC at 100 www.peacehistorysociety.org 42-44: Member News 45: Announcements PHS News, July 2017 4 The full conference program has not yet been Remembering Muted Voices: announced, but the keynote and plenary sessions Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, have been finalized. and Civil Liberties in World War I Thursday, October 19, 7:00 pm: through Today Ingrid Sharp, Leeds University: “Making a Stand: German Opposition to World War I” October 19-22, 2017 Also: Vaughan Williams’s “Dona Nobis Pacem,” with the Conservatory Singers, National World War I Museum and University of Missouri-Kansas City Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri Conservatory of Music and Dance and the Rainbow Mennonite Church Choir Sponsors: Friday, October 20, 8:30 am: American Civil Liberties Union Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University: Peace History Society “Mustering Support for War: Gender Plough Publishing House Conformity and the ‘Inevitability’ of the First Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust World War” Endorsed by: Friday, October 20, 10:30 am: All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church; Plenary session: “Genesis and Persistence in American Friends Service Committee; Advocacy for Peace – Faith Organizations” Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America; Don Davis: AFSC The Brethren Historical Library and Archives; James Juhnke: Mennonite Central Committee Bruderhof; Jane Dawson: Quakers in Britain Community of Christ Seminary; Kristin Stoneking:Fellowship of Reconciliation Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council; Historians Against the War; Friday, October 20, 7:00 pm: Michael Kazin, Georgetown University: John Whitmer Historical Association; “War Against War: The American Fight for Mennonite Central Committee; Peace, 1914-1918, and Implications for Today” Mennonite Historical Society; The Mennonite Quarterly Review; Saturday, October 21, 8:30 am: Peace Pavilion; Plenary
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