Scott H. Bennett

Publications — Books

• OPPOSITION TO WAR: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNITED STATES PEACE AND ANTIWAR MOVEMENTS, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), edited by Mitchell K. Hall, with consulting editors Scott H. Bennett, Justus D. Doenecke, & Valarie H. Ziegler. Contributed 13 entries ranging from 500 to 3,500 words each (13,500 words total). 

• ANTIWAR DISSENT & PEACE ACTIVISM IN WORLD WAR I AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY READER, co-edited with Chuck F. Howlett, with a 36-pp. introduction (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

• ARMY GI, PACIFIST CO: THE WORLD WAR II LETTERS OF FRANK AND ALBERT DIETRICH (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), edited with a 62-pp. archival-based introduction). [Introduction reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96.] 

• RADICAL PACIFISM: THE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE AND GANDHIAN  NONVIOLENCE IN AMERICA, 1915-1963 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003, reprint 2013).

Current Book Projects

• “Conscientious Objector, Radical Pacifist, & Nonviolent Activist: How Igal Roodenko Contributed to Peace, Justice, & Freedom in World War II & Postwar America” (manuscript in final stages).

• “Radical Pacifist and Democratic Socialist: David McReynolds and Cold War Dissent.”

Publications — Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• “World War I Conscientious Objectors: Conscience and Resistance,” pp. 220-32.  In The Cambridge History of American Great War Literature and Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021), edited Mark Van Wienen & Tim Dayton.

• “Shell Shock in Context: A Conversation with Harriet Hyman Alonso and Adam Hochschild.” In Peace & Change: A  Journal of Peace Research 41 (January 2016): 87-105.

• “Conscience, Comrades, & the Cold War: The Korean War Draft Resistance Cases of Socialist Pacifists David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” In Peace & Change 38 (January 2013): 83-120.

• “Introduction” to Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank & Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). Reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96.

• “American Pacifism, the ‘Greatest Generation’ & World War II,” pp. 259-92. In Kurt Piehler & Sidney Pash, ed., The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Homefront (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).

• “‘Free American Political Prisoners’: Pacifist Activism and Civil Liberties, 1945-1948.” In Journal of Peace Research 40 (July 2003): 413-33.

• “Workers/Draftees of the World Unite! Carlos A. Cortez Redcloud Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, & IWW Artist/Bard,” pp. 12-56. In Victor Sorell, ed., Carlos A. Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel & Artist (Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 2002).

• “Radical Pacifism and the General Strike Against War: Jessie Wallace Hughan, the Founding of the War Resisters League, & the Socialist Origins of Secular Radical Pacifism in America.” In Peace & Change 26 (July 2001): 352-73.

• “Socialist Pacifism and Nonviolent Social Revolution: The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” In Peace & Change 25 (January 2000): 102-28.

Publications — Minor Articles / Book Reviews (44, see CV)

Scholarly Presentations  (41, see CV)

Public Lectures & Interviews (50, see CV)