For the People: A Documentary History of The Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States (Peace Education) - Softcover

Howlett, Charles F.; Lieberman, Robbie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607523051 ISBN 13: 9781607523055

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

For the People is a historical docutext that examines the evolution of the struggle for peace and justice in America's past, from pre-colonial times to the present. Each chapter begins with a brief historical introduction followed by a series of primary source documents and questions to encourage student comprehension. Sample photographs illustrate the range of peace activists' concerns, while the list of references, focused on the most important works in the field of U.S. peace history, points students toward opportunities for further research. This is the only historical docutext specifically devoted to peace issues. The interpretive analysis of American peace history provided by the editors makes this more than just an anthology of collected documents. As such, the docutext is an extension and a complement to the editors' recently published popular scholarly survey, A History of the American Peace Movement from Colonial Times to the Present. A central idea in this work is that peace is more than just the absence of war. The documents, and the analysis that accompanies them, offer fresh perspectives on the ways in which the peace movement became transformed from one simply opposing war to one proclaiming the importance of social, political, and economic equality. The editors' premise is that the peace movement historically has been a collective attempt by numerous well-intentioned people to improve American society. The book illuminates the ways in which peace activists were often connected to larger reform movements in American history, including those that fought for the rights of working people, for women's equality, and for the abolition of slavery, to name just a few. With a focus on those who spoke out for peace, this docutext is designed to call to students' attention one of the least discussed classroom subjects in American education today. Students in secondary school Social Studies and American history classes as well as those taking college level courses in U.S. history, American Studies, or Peace Studies will find this work an excellent supplementary reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Robbie Lieberman is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She is the author of "My Song Is My Weapon": People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture and The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anti-Communism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1607523051
• ISBN 13: 9781607523055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376