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Committee on Militarism in Education Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Founded in 1925 by John Nevin Sayre, Norman Thomas and E. Raymond Wilson to abolish compulsory military training in colleges and universities, and all military training in public high schools. Other executive members were Roswell P. Barnes, Tucker P. Smith, Edwin C. Johnson, and George A. Coe. Ceased operation in 1940.
Guide to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 2nd ed., p. 19.
All of this collection, excluding newspaper clippings, is available on microfilm (reels 70.1-70.67). Microfilm is available on-site by appointment and through interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
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Subject
- Military education -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Draft
- Militarism
- Military education
- Militia
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
Collection Inventory
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Filed by topic.
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Ordered by state. Some states have only the state file, others have also files on specific universities and cases.
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some not dated
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5 folders
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