Download or read book Home Front America written by Robert Heide and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While young men and women were overseas fighting the battles of World War II, those left behind in the states filled the home front with humor and longing, style and song. Home Front America is a nostalgic, visual look at the cultural ephemera of that era, with all of its brash propaganda and sweet sentimentality. Authors Robert Heide and John Gilman have collected an astounding array of items which vividly recall American life during those chaotic times. Through a substantial, entertaining text and colorful photographs of pinback buttons, war posters, fashions, household products, ads, and much more, these two war-baby authors have evoked a time of excitement, strength, sacrifice, and hope. The book also explores a multitude of home front activities, from U.S.O. canteens to war bond rallies, home front decor to housewives' wartime menus, Victory Gardens to rationing, and radio programming to Hollywood films.
Download or read book Home Front U S A written by Allan M. Winkler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New scholarship on World War II continues to broaden our understanding. With each passing year we know more about the triumphs and the tragedies of America’s involvement in the momentous conflict. Tapping into this greater awareness of the accomplishments of both soldiers and civilians and a better recognition of the consequences of decisions made, Allan Winkler presents the third edition of his highly popular series volume. Informed by the latest historical literature and featuring many new thoughtfully chosen photographs, the third edition of Home Front U.S.A. continues to ponder the question of "the good war," the moral implications of the use of the atomic bomb, the implications of expanding wartime roles for women, African Americans, American Jews, the imprisonment of Japanese Americans at the hands of the federal government, and the experiences of the many other people who, though relegated to the fringe of mainstream society, contributed in important ways to the nation's successful prosecution of its greatest challenge.
Download or read book V for Victory written by Stan Cohen and published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.
Download or read book The Homefront written by Mark Jonathan Harris and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes primary sources on defense workers, women during the war, conscientious objectors, scrap metal collection and recycling, racial issues on the homefront, and civil defense.
Download or read book The Home Front U S A written by Ronald H. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial: William A. Zundel.
Download or read book Wartime America written by John W. Jeffries and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Jeffries observes in his new and cogent history of America during World War II, our view of the war has been shaped by two widely accepted perspectives: as a watershed in American history, as a “Good War” of national unity, virtue, and success. Searching for the reality behind these catchphrases, Mr. Jeffries finds a richer and more varied portrait of America at war, one that defies easy interpretation. If great changes came to American life, thy were not necessarily brought by the war; if the struggle seemed one of moral unity, not all Americans were equally wedded to the cause. In considering the nation's political economy and the effects of mobilization; the social and cultural mobility of wartime; the experiences of minority groups; the strains of domestic politics; and the influence of propaganda, Mr. Jeffries paints a picture of a people emerging from the Great Depression and eager for a better life, yet often reluctant to abandon the touchstones of their past. His succinct, informative history is a welcome contribution to our understanding of this crucial moment in the American experience.
Download or read book The Homefront written by Mark Jonathan Harris and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with ordinary Americans describe how the United States was affected by the war.
Download or read book The American Home Front written by James L. Abrahamson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Home Front is a comparative analysis of the economic, political, and social results of America's four principal wars, this study reveals the major issues faced by each wartime administration and sketches the consequences of the mobilization policies adopted. Each conflict occurred in unique circumstances, required varied policies, and produced different effects on American institutions."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Concentration Camps on the Home Front written by John Howard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without trial and without due process, the United States government locked up nearly all of those citizens and longtime residents who were of Japanese descent during World War II. Ten concentration camps were set up across the country to confine over 120,000 inmates. Almost 20,000 of them were shipped to the only two camps in the segregated South—Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas—locations that put them right in the heart of a much older, long-festering system of racist oppression. The first history of these Arkansas camps, Concentration Camps on the Home Front is an eye-opening account of the inmates’ experiences and a searing examination of American imperialism and racist hysteria. While the basic facts of Japanese-American incarceration are well known, John Howard’s extensive research gives voice to those whose stories have been forgotten or ignored. He highlights the roles of women, first-generation immigrants, and those who forcefully resisted their incarceration by speaking out against dangerous working conditions and white racism. In addition to this overlooked history of dissent, Howard also exposes the government’s aggressive campaign to Americanize the inmates and even convert them to Christianity. After the war ended, this movement culminated in the dispersal of the prisoners across the nation in a calculated effort to break up ethnic enclaves. Howard’s re-creation of life in the camps is powerful, provocative, and disturbing. Concentration Camps on the Home Front rewrites a notorious chapter in American history—a shameful story that nonetheless speaks to the strength of human resilience in the face of even the most grievous injustices.
Download or read book V is for Victory written by Sylvia Whitman and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes life in the United States during World War II, discussing such activities as civil defense, the Japanese relocation, rationing, propaganda, and censorship.
Download or read book Design for Victory written by William L. Bird and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.
Download or read book The Darkest Year written by William K. Klingaman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string of military setbacks in the Pacific; by the autumn of 1942, government officials were openly acknowledging the possibility that the United States might lose the war. Appeals for unity and declarations of support for the war effort in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor made it appear as though the class hostilities and partisan animosities that had beset the United States for decades — and grown sharper during the Depression — suddenly disappeared. They did not, and a deeply divided American society splintered further during 1942 as numerous interest groups sought to turn the wartime emergency to their own advantage. Blunders and repeated displays of incompetence by the Roosevelt administration added to the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that hung over the nation. The Darkest Year focuses on Americans’ state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behavior. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture, including shifts in family roles, race relations, economic pursuits, popular entertainment, education, and the arts.
Download or read book A Spy on the Home Front written by Alison Hart and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
Download or read book Home Front Soldier written by Philip L. Aquila and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a multi-layered social history of a soldier and his Italian American family during World War II.
Download or read book America s Home Front Heroes written by Stacy Enyeart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new compendium of firsthand reminiscences of life on the American home front during World War II. America's Home Front Heroes: An Oral History of World War II brings together in one rich resource the voices of those whom history often leaves out—the ordinary men, women, and children caught up in an extraordinary time. America's Home Front Heroes is divided into four sections: A Time for Heightened Passion, A Time for Caution and Prejudice, A Time for Flag Waving, and A Time for War Plant Women. The 34 brief oral histories within these sections capture the full diversity of the United States during the war, with contributions coming from men, women, and children of all backgrounds, including Japanese Americans, conscientious objectors, African Americans, housewives, and journalists. A treasure trove for researchers and World War II enthusiasts, this remarkable volume offers members of "the greatest generation" an opportunity to relive their defining era. For those with no direct experience of the period, it's a chance to learn firsthand what it was like living in the United States at a pivotal moment in history.
Download or read book A Nation at War written by Denise Lowery and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout history, the ideals of a society are depicted through artifacts left behind including its advertising and project designs. These items become a mirror into how a society views itself. Whether it is a realistic view or not is not the question, but how this society perceives itself and how its people deal with adversities, is the topic this thesis will address. At no other time in history was America able to pull completely together to support a nation at war. Advertising and new product designs were a major force towards uniting a country. This thesis will address this mass bombardment of war-related advertising and its effects. This thesis will follow the events of World War II on the American homefront and how the creative people during the years from 1940 to 1945 dealt with the various design problems. Through the exploration of artifacts, this thesis will show how a nation at war dealt with issues of morality, patriotism, material shortages, and new wartime products. It reveals how a nation can prosper during economic upheaval by keeping morale strong and patriotism at an all-time high. This thesis will focus on homefront artifacts that support the national war effort and will exclude articles used in the military. Judging from the displays in the 1939 World's Fair held in New York City, the people of America were on a path of technological brilliance which set the stage for what was to come in the next five years. They took those brilliant ideas and modified them to work for a new cause -- to help a nation cope with the shortcomings of a brutal war."--Abstract.
Download or read book American Home Front in World War II written by Sharon M. Hanes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the American home front during World War II with excerpts from thirty-eight documents as well as presidential speeches, proclamations, magazine articles and memories of people who lived during this difficult time. Also contains over sixty-five black-and-white photographs, a time line, and glossary.
