The War Prayer
Video of Mark Twain’s War Prayer:
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Films To Help Us Rethink War
The Voices Education Project has a marvelous list of films about war (and a great section on curriculum ideas for using anti-war films and documentaries.) Some are old favorites and some that are new to me. Last week I ordered a copy of the 1938 J’Accuse. The NYT said of the film: “This 1938 sci-fi… Read More »
Images of War
The New York Times had an intriguing “idea of the day,” The Morality of Web War Footage. It leads us to an online magazine that is new to me: Guernica – a Magazine of Art & Politics and specifically to an article by Nicholas Sautin, The Pleasure of Flinching. Sautin cites Susan Sontag’s Regarding the… Read More »
Howard Zinn: Three Holy Wars
On the 100th anniversary of Progressive Magazine, Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States, gave a talk about three holy wars. Not religious wars, he explained, but rather America’s “sacred” wars that are considered to be just and beyond criticism. They are the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War… Read More »
Understanding and Combating War
Understanding and Combating War This is a resource provided by the Voices Education Project. It is a complilation of writings, music, drama and art inspired by the work of Lucy Dougall in her book War and Peace in Literature: Prose, Drama and Poetry which Illuminate the Problem of War. Here’s what you’ll find (click on… Read More »