World War 1 and Dissent at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City in a nutshell: Where?: The Research Center in the National World War I Museum in Kansas City When?: November 22, 2014, 10:30–3:00 (with the Research Library open until 4:00 PM) Point of contact: Alex Stinson stinsoadksu.edu Twitter: @DHKstate and @TheWWImuseum and #WW1dissent Cost: Free

The event will focus on editing Wikipedia pages about World War I and dissent—including peace attempts, conscience objectors, neutrality advocates, etc. Current Wikipedia coverage of the war overwhelmingly focuses on the military and successful political positions shaped the history of World War I; this topic allows us to better emphasize how the home front, exploring gaps frequently not highlighted in the historical conversation about the war. With over 8,000 visits a minute, Wikipedia is the most used reference work in the world; yet Wikipedia has ton's of gaps about a number of topics, WWI and Dissent being just one! Lets make sure that Wikipedia doesn't forget multiple perspectives on history!

Of course, anyone interested in editing about World War I topics more generally, or interested in learning about Wikipedia are more than welcome! We plan on training everyone who attends the event to edit Wikipedia, no experience or technical skills required! Only bring a readiness to learn!

The editathon at the WWI Museum in Kansas City is part of a larger international event, for more information about the topic and international event see WP:Meetup/WW1 and Dissent.

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event in the Attendees section below!
• Create a Wikipedia account - Special:UserLogin/signup
• Bring a laptop (Wi-Fi will be provided), if you don't have a laptop then email stinsoadksu.edu as we may has a limited number available for the event
• If you have time, learn about editing if you like: WP:TWA, Wikipedia:Tutorial, or Getting started on Wikipedia for more information
• Lunch refreshments will be provided!

Agenda

• 10:30 AM – Sign in and welcome from across the Atlantic
• 10:45–11:15 – Editing introduction
• 11:15–12:00 – Lunch and small presentation on the resources that were pulled for the event, begin topic selection
• 12:00–2:45 – Work on expanding articles
• 2:45–3:00 – Presentation of what everyone worked on and what's next!
• 4:00 PM – Research center closes

International aspects

This is the Kansas City end of a multisite event Wikipedia:Meetup/WW1_and_Dissent which is also at Library of Birmingham and Senate House Library, London in the UK.

1. Alex Stinson, a.k.a. User:Sadads

1. GregoryMGalvin (talk · contribs)
2. James Juhnke (talk · contribs)
3. Kcnywdc40 (talk · contribs)
4. Lora.WWIMuseum (talk · contribs)
5. Mdupont (talk · contribs), a.k.a. Mdupontmobile (talk · contribs)
6. Sadads (talk · contribs)
7. TheGogglette (talk · contribs)
8. voidxor (talk · contribs)
9. Wpjrcwwi (talk · contribs)

Participated remotely

1. M2545 (talk · contribs)

Couldn't attend?

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User:James Juhnke

• Jacob Ewert (moved from his sandbox)

User:Lora.WWIMuseum

• Liberty Memorial
• National World War I Museum

User:M2545

• Added references to anti-war politicians Clarence Dill and Isaac R. Sherwood
• Added anti-war events to Timeline of St. Louis and Timeline of New York City
• Added events to 1915 in the United States, 1916 in the United States, 1917 in the United States, 1918 in the United States
• Added Commons link to Category:American anti-war activists
• Added content to Opposition to World War I
• Added links to Woman's Peace Party

User:Mdupont

• Alice & Claude Askew – Added more details for the book including online edition
• Edward Percy Stebbing – Adding his book on the Serbian front in Macedonia
• Louis Raemaekers – Added Books with his art work based on https://theworldwar.org
• Milutin Krunich – Article about one author who helped create Serbophil sentiment

User:Wpjrcwwi

• Added content to United States home front during World War I

New articles

• Conscientious Objectors in Birmingham in WW1
• Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
• Congregational Memorial Hall – Nonconformist meeting place where the No-Conscription Fellowship held its first convention

Articles to work on

The below list includes a list of different content that could be expand or created during the editathons. References on the item link to scholarship that might be useful in writing or expanding the topic.

General topics

• Anti-war movement#World War I – The World War I anti-war movement section is rather weak, could use significant expansion. (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: World War One Era Pamphlets MS1152)
• Dada – Anti-war implications of the movement could be expanded. Multiple scholars place the Dada Movement within the Anti-War reaction^[1][2]
• International Congress of Women – Could be expanded, currently several meetings of the congress uncovered in the article. Pacifist organization, international peace movement, women activists

People

• Caroline Playne – Needs an article (More resources in Senate House Library Historic Collections: Playne Collection)
• John Wheatley – Currently no footnotes, could be expanded, Scottish Politician
• Judah Leon Magnes#Pacifism and the anti-war movement – Anti-war Jewish leader, also links to politicians and other objectors to the war
• Emily Greene Balch – American Nobel-wining Quaker entered the peace movement during World War I
• Walter Liggett – American journalist
• Ruth Fry – British Quaker and anti-war
• Catherine Courtney – British women's right's activist, mentioned in Opposition to World War I
• Catherine Marshall – British women's suffrage activist mentioned in Opposition to World War I
• Randolph Bourne – American writer
• Morris Hillquit – American socialist politician, under developed discussion of his opposition to the war
• Charles H. Kerr – American publisher of radical work
• Kate Richards O'Hare – American socialist and anti-war activist
• Lloyd family (Birmingham) (work in progress)
• Barrow Cadbury (Birmingham)
• William Joseph Chamberlain – New article about this pacifist

Literature

• "You Have No Country" – Important collection of anti-war essays published by socialists, including *Mary Marcy
• Die Waffen nieder or Lay Down Your Arms! – Could be expanded, as an antiwar novel prominent in German circles before. Moreover, 1914 adaptation as protest of the WWI^[3]
• American antiwar literature

Groups

• No-Conscription Fellowship – Has been expanded. The Senate House Library has 24 issues of their journal, The Tribunal.
• Friends Ambulance Unit – Section on First World War could be expanded
• The Guild of the Pope's Peace – Could be created or included in Anti-war_movement#World_War_I
• Missing groups from From notes on Pacifist, Anti-Conscription, and Civil Liberties Groups - 1914-1919 described in the editorial notes for the Emma Goldman papers at UC Berkley
• Friends War Victims Relief Committee – Mentioned in Ruth Fry

United Kingdom topics

United States topics

• Chemical_Corps#World_War_I – Significant public debate and pressure post war could be expanded^[4]
• New_Negro#The_First_World_War – Signficant post-war resistance from African Americans involved in the war - current article doesn't explore much depth- article about the resistance post-war
• Woman's Peace Party – Needs significant expansion. Anti-war party and advocate for women's rights, big gap in the organizations history during the period of the war
• No Conscription League
• American Union Against Militarism
• Selective Service Act of 1917 – No mention of the resistance groups to the draft law
• New York Emergency Peace Federation – Mentioned in section of People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace
• Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company – Publishing company important radical publishing materials

Where else to look for gaps

• Opposition to World War I
  • Category:Opposition_to_World_War_I
• World War I literature
  • Category:Anti-war_works
• Anti-war movement#World War I
• British_women's_literature_of_World_War_I
• Category:World War I propaganda

Sources to pull from

American

Many of these sources address Dissent in WWI directly and were discovered through a google scholar search of works citing Over Here: The First World War and American Society

• Anababtist encyclopedia with bibliography - not good for citation but sources could be integrated more thoroughly
• http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a486008.pdf
• - Discusses German-American groups in the U.S. during the war
• - Discusses foreign communities in New York City as they develop different ways of commemorating the war
• - article analyzes post-WWI "Red Scare" and relationship to War resistence
• - American baseball's reluctance during the war
• article about censorship of mail during WWI targeting socialists in the US
• - Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - discusses resistance in the rural American south to the war
• - Dissertation titled "SOLDIER BOYS OF TEXAS: THE SEVENTH TEXAS INFANTRY IN WORLD WAR I" briefly discusses the resistance to draft, etc.
• - Ungrateful Bodies: Rehabilitation, Resistance and Disabled American Veterans of the First World War
• Discusses the Civilian life during the war
• "Perils of Prussianism": Main Street German America, Local Autonomy, and the Great War
• Literature survey of the war's meaning, highlight several studies that pay attention to war period
• "Against Their Own Weakness": Policing Sexuality and Women in San Antonio, Texas, during World War I
• CONSCRIPTION POLICY, CITIZENSHIP AND RELIGIOUS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DURING WORLD WAR ONE Dissertation with thorough examination of the movement, esp. in Canada - excellent bibliography
• Mob Violence and Kansas Mennonites in 1918
• Showdown in Burrton, Kansas
• Kansas Mennonites during WWI- masters thesis from Fort Hays University (requires request for access)
• University of Richmond master's thesis "Deporting "Red Emma" : the political and legal battles for citizenship, 1917-1921"
• Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917–1919
• UGA MA Thesis
• Mobilizing Sentiment: Popular American Women's Fiction of the Great War; 1914-1922 Dissertation UNL
• A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I By Frances H. Earl
• Swarthmore college peace collection
• Chapter in Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution by Alan Dawley
• Anti-War History in the Northwest

British

• Explore our collection of First World War records (The National Archives)
• The World War Sources for History (The National Archives)
• World War One - The British Library Supported by over 500 historical sources from across Europe.
• First World War Learning Resources (Imperial War Museums)
• The Illustrated First World War from the archives of The Illustrated London News
• The Playne Collection The printed Playne Collection comprises some 530 books and pamphlets pertaining to the First World War. This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
• World War One Era Pamphlets (MS1152) This collection will be available at the Senate House Library event.
• First World War Centenary Quakers in Britain
• Opposing World War One: Courage and Conscience An information briefing about conscientious objection and peace activism in the First World War. (Quakers in Britain)
• Quaker Strongrooms: a Blog from the Library of the Society of Friends (Quakers in Britain)
• Library resources for researching World War I: Friends Ambulance Unit (Quakers in Britain)
• Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee collection on archive catalogue (Quakers in Britain)
• Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee (Quakers in Britain)

Global

• World War I Crossroads (H-Net)
• Resistance in New Zealand to Conscription
• The First World War: The Story of a Global Conflict (The Guardian)

• More at commons:Category:Emily_Johns

References