LibGuides: Primary Sources: World War I: Anti-War

Online Sources: Anti-War/Peace Advocacy - WWI

Free Speech in Wartime October 6, 1917
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Free Speech in Wartime
October 6, 1917
Randolph Bourne Vents His Animus Against War
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"A youthful critic in his twenties, Randolph Bourne wrote a bitter essay in the intellectual magazine Seven Arts, lambasting his fellow intellectuals for lining up so readily behind the war effort. "
Speech Against Conscription And War
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Delivered at Forward Hall, New York City on June 14, 1917, an Anarchist.
Strike Against War
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Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, January 5, 1916, by Helen Keller
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”
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"One of the hit songs of 1915, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” by lyricist Alfred Bryan and composer Al Piantadosi, captured widespread American skepticism about joining in the European war. "
“It Has No Popular Support”
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Speech by Senator Robert M. La Follette April 4, 1917 against a Declaration of War.

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