Credit: Courtesy of the Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
In the final two decades of his life, Andrew Carnegie turned his focus to philanthropy and the promotion of world peace. As storm clouds gathered over Europe in the early 1910s, Carnegie spoke of a "league of nations," and built the Palace of Peace at The Hague, known since as the World Court. He pressed Theodore Roosevelt to meet with the Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, and did so himself, but in the end, all his efforts could not prevent the outbreak of World War I.
