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United States in the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focusing on the devasting events for American soliders during World War I.
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Master of the Air: William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift
Robert A. Slayton
In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which had been at the heart of World Wars One and Two, that the first potentially explosive confrontation developed. The USSR, which had suffered more at Germany’s hands than the rest of the Allies combined, may have viewed developments there with heightened fear and irritability. When the western Allies moved to consolidate their areas of control in occupied Germany, the USSR responded by cutting off land access to West Berlin, holding over two million residents of that city hostage in an aggressive act of brinkmanship.
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Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
During World War I governmental agencies in the United States produced thousands of posters that targeted both the entire country and specific segments of the population, including the African American community.
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The Memory of the Great War in the African American Community
Jennifer D. Keene
One day a colonel met a colored captain whom he thought he had seen be- fore. “Haven’t I seen you somewhere?” he asked. “Yes, sir,” replied the man, “I was with you on the [Mexican] border [in 1916]; Captain French is my name, sir.” “Oh, I do remember,” said the colonel, “you are Sergeant French.” “No, sir, I am Captain French.” “Well,” said the colonel as he walked away, “if I forget and call you Sergeant, don’t mind.” This encounter between two officers in France during the First World War encapsulated the essence of black troops’ war experience: trying to serve with honor and distinction while encountering a steady torrent of racial prejudice.
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Americans at War: Assessing the Significance of American Participation in the Great War
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focuses on American involvement in the Great War (as compared to New Zealand's) and the significance of their final victory.
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World War I, American Soldiers Lives Series
Jennifer D. Keene
Read the experiences of the men and women who served in a horrific war, across the sea-the Great War. Relying extensively on letters, diaries, and reminiscences of those Americans who fought or served in World War I, Jennifer Keene reports on training and camp requirements for enlistees and recruits; the details of the transport across the ocean of sailors, soldiers, and others being carried Over There; and the experiences of African Americans, women, Native Americans and immigrants in The White Man's Army. She also describes in vivid detail, The Sailor's War, and for those on the ground in France and Belgium, the events of static trench warfare, and movement combat. Chapters describe coping with and treating disease and wounds; the devastating amount of death; and for those who came home, the veterans' difficult entrances back into civilian life. A timeline, extensive bibliography or recommended sources, and illustrations add to the usefulness of the volume.
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Protest and Disability: A New Look at African American Soldiers During the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focuses on the treatment of African American soldiers during World War I.
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Raising the American Expeditionary Forces: Early Decision Making in 1917
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focuses on the increase of American expeditionary forces: in 1917.
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Arms of Destruction: Ranking the World's Best Land Weapons of World War II
Robert A. Slayton
World War II left behind a legacy of bloodshed and glory - but its military technology still ignites debate. What was the best tank of war? Does the 8mm cannon live up to its rep? Slayton tackles the subject giving clear descriptions, and rock-hard ruling, on what weapons rose to the top and why. He explains how arms of the era came about, why they work and what makes them unique. Packed with fascinating facts, great eyewitness stories and exciting photos, this is an essential volume for military and history buffs, World War II vets, hobbyists, patriots and modellers alike.
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Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
Robert A. Slayton
This chapter focuses on the neighborhood councils in Chicago throughout the years.
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Homelessness and Shelters
Robert A. Slayton
This chapter focuses on the rise and fall of homelessness in the city of Chicago throughout the years
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Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
Jennifer D. Keene
Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts―in their view―entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.
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French and American Racial Stereotypes during the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focuses on the racial prejudice in France and America during World War I.
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Al Smith and the 1928 Election
Robert A. Slayton
This chapter focuses on presidential candidate Al Smith in his campaign against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith
Robert A. Slayton
Franklin Roosevelt is said to have explained Al Smith, and his own New Deal, with these words: "Practically all the things we've done in the federal government are the things Al Smith did as governor of New York." Smith, who ran for president in 1928, not only set the model for FDR, he also taught America that the promise of the country extends to everyone and no one should be left behind.
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The Jungle
Robert A. Slayton
This chapter discusses one of the most significant novels in American history, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
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The Jungle
Robert A. Slayton
This entry discusses one of the most significant novels in American history, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
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The Holocaust Chronicle
Marilyn Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russell Lemons, Robert A. Michael, Keith Pickus, and John K. Roth
The complete full-text of a seminal book for Holocaust studies, The Holocaust Chronicle. The site contains every word of the main text, as well as the index and all of the images from the print edition. The information within was gathered and fact-checked by top Holocaust scholars, and covers everything 1933-1945, beginning with the restrictive laws passed when Hitler took power to the deaths of at least six million Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of war, Communists, and others.
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John Williams Macy, Jr.
Robert A. Slayton
This encyclopedia entry focuses on the life of John W. Macy, Jr.
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Uneasy Alliances: French Military Intelligence and the American Army during the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
This chapter focuses on the French-American alliance during World War I.
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Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy
Robert A. Slayton
"Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power."—John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Below you may find selected books and book chapters from History faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
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