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Why women's peace activism in World War I matters now

In 1915, Woman's Peace Party sent a delegation to International Congress of Women at The Hague

Peace Delegates on the Noordam. Source: Library of Congress
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Peace Delegates on the Noordam. Source: Library of Congress

Anya Jabour | The Conversation
A hundred years ago, soon after winning reelection on the campaign slogan “He kept us out of war,” President Woodrow Wilson called on the U.S. Congress to authorize “a war to end all wars.”
The U.S. entry into World War I abruptly ended a different campaign to end war. Between the onset of hostilities in Europe in July 1914 and the U.S. declaration of war in April 1917, a determined group of women activists lobbied the president and Congress to maintain American neutrality and mediate a “negotiated

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