Christopher Densmore, associate archivist at UB, has a principal research interest, too. It is the early history of New York's Quakers, who, though nominal in number, have had enormous influence on ...

I belong to a tiny Quaker Meeting in the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania just north of Gettysburg. Our meeting house is surrounded by acres upon acres of apple orchards, and our community ...

Parts of Quaker history are ugly and contradictory — many early Quakers enslaved people — yet it was also the first religious establishment in the English colonies to call for abolition.

His parents were Quakers, and the social atmosphere of the place of his birth had in it all the rigid and earnest seriousuess of an early Puritan neighborhood. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

worked to improve race relations and offered advice to young Quakers about their responsibilities as conscientious objectors to the military draft. As an early environmentalist, Frances Bear ...