American writers on peace and against war

Conrad Aiken: Vast symphonic dance of death

Ambrose Bierce: Killed At Resaca

Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Randolph Bourne: The War and the Intellectuals

Randolph Bourne: War and the State

William Cullen Bryant: Christmas 1875

Stephen Crane: There was crimson clash of war

Stephen Crane: War Is Kind

John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers

Theodore Dreiser and Smedley Butler: War is a Racket

W.E.B. Du Bois: Work for Peace

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Birds of peace and deadened hearts

William Faulkner: There is only the question: When will I be blown up?

Frank Harris: Henri Barbusse and the war against war

Nathaniel Hawthorne on war: Drinking out of skulls till the Millennium

Ernest Hemingway: Combat the murder that is war

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Hymn to Peace

Julia Ward Howe: Mother’s Day Proclamation 1870

William Dean Howells: Editha

William Dean Howells: Spanish Prisoners of War

William James: The Moral Equivalent of War

William James: The Philippine Tangle

Sidney Lanier: Death in Eden

Sidney Lanier: War by other means

Richard Le Gallienne: The Illusion of War

Sinclair Lewis: It Can(‘t) Happen Here

Jack London: War

James Russell Lowell on Lamartine: Highest duty of man, to summon peace when vulture of war smells blood

Edgar Lee Masters: “The honor of the flag must be upheld”

Edgar Lee Masters: The Philippine Conquest

Herman Melville: Trophies of Peace

H.L. Mencken: New wars will bring about an unparalleled butchery of men

William Vaughn Moody: Bullet’s scream went wide of its mark to its homeland’s heart

Edgar Allan Poe: The Valley of Unrest

Edwin Arlington Robinson: Though your very flesh and blood the Eagle eats and drinks, you’ll praise him for the best of birds

Carl Sandburg: Ready to Kill

George Santayana on war and militarism

Mark Twain: The War Prayer

Mark Twain: To the Person Sitting in Darkness

John Greenleaf Whittier: If this be Peace, pray what is War?

John Greenleaf Whittier: The Peace Convention at Brussels