shen colleagues John D. Roth, Marilyn Bayak, Dennis Stoesz, and Joe
Springer.

Unforgettable people came to my attention as subjects for this book;
it was my good fortune to get to know some of them and to be a guest
in their homes. Thanks especially to Lois Kreider, Elizabeth Goering,
Naomi Fast, and Nancy and Louis Neumann, as well as to all who shared
scrapbooks, correspondence, and the photographs that illustrate this
work. For access to other primary source materials I am indebted to
Wendy Chmielewski of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Hazel Peters of On Earth Peace in New
Windsor, Maryland, Lois Bowman of Eastern Mennonite University in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kenneth Shaffer of the Brethren Historical
Library and Archives in Elgin, Illinois.

Historians in and beyond my geographic communities have contrib-
uted in countless ways. I appreciate the words of counsel and critique
from Linda Kerber, Ted Wilson, Norman Saul, Paul Boyer, David Smith,
Harriet Hyman Alonso, John Oyer, and Theron Schlabach. Working
with Kate Torrey and her staff at the University of North Carolina Press
has been a pleasure.

My husband, Duane, has been deeply supportive, and our young chil-
dren, Ben and Elsa, have offered unconditional love and much merri-
ment during the years that this book has been in the making. Women
Against the Good War is in part about families, and I've often been re-
minded of mine while mentally immersing myself in the lives of 1940s-
era American women. My parents, Lenore and James Waltner, are my
bridge to that earlier generation, and I dedicate this book to them with
thanks.

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