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Book The Joseph M  Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina

Download or read book The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.

Book On the Battlefield of Memory

Download or read book On the Battlefield of Memory written by Steven Trout and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled, more a matter of competing sets of collective memories—each set with its own spokespeople— than a unified body of myth. The members of the American Legion remembered the war as a time of assimilation and national harmony. However, African Americans and radicalized whites recalled a very different war. And so did many of the nation’s writers, filmmakers, and painters. Trout studies a wide range of cultural products for their implications concerning the legacy of the war: John Dos Passos’s novels Three Soldiers and 1919, Willa Cather’s One of Ours, William March’s Company K, and Laurence Stallings’s Plumes; paintings by Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry; portrayals of the war in The American Legion Weekly and The American Legion Monthly; war memorials and public monuments like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; and commemorative products such as the twelve-inch tall Spirit of the American Doughboy statue. Trout argues that American memory of World War I was not only confused and contradictory during the ‘20s and ‘30s, but confused and contradictory in ways that accommodated affirmative interpretations of modern warfare and military service. Somewhat in the face of conventional wisdom, Trout shows that World War I did not destroy the glamour of war for all, or even most, Americans and enhanced it for many.

Book Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay

Download or read book Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay written by George Harvey Ralphson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Over There with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

Download or read book Over There with the Marines at Chateau Thierry written by G. Harvey Ralphson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge

Download or read book Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge written by George H. Ralphson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Over There with the Canadians at Vimy Ridge by George H. Ralphson

Book Uncle Sam s Navy Boys Afloat

Download or read book Uncle Sam s Navy Boys Afloat written by Philip Jasper and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A List of English   American Sequel Stories

Download or read book A List of English American Sequel Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aftermyths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert G. Eisenhauer
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780820486970
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Aftermyths written by Robert G. Eisenhauer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aftermyths investigates fault-lines in literary and visual representation from 1870 to the early twentieth century as they range from a faux essentialism, often with ethnic overtones, to a «cadence of decadence» reflecting the dissensions of modernity. Reading Henry James and Mark Twain with side-glances to the cartoon revolution of Rudolf Dirks and Richard Felton Outcault, Robert Eisenhauer delves into the archive of frontier or histrionic «decadence, » «Americanness, » and «Germanness.» Pastoral idiom and foreign words, «incomprehensible to us as so many dead languages, » reflect Hesperian micrology on the part of the Übergossiper James, a discursive «katzenjammer» effect, while Twain's difficulties with German exemplify a strategy of emancipation informed by minstrel-like showmanship and a river or streetwise skepticism. In addition, Eisenhauer applies key concepts of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project to New York City after 1920. Mayor Jimmy Walker and urban planner Robert Moses are seen as Dionysian and Apollonian instances contesting the meta-arcades of Manhattan at the intersection of epic, lyric, and drama. Outcault's «Opera in Ryan's Arcade» vernacularizes the difference between uptown and downtown, high art and low «un-art.» With the premise that Freud's definition of caricature in Totem and Taboo remains valid, Aftermyths goes on to investigate the bear as a mimetic paradigm for Nietzsche's «not yet determined animal» homo sapiens. Finally, Eisenhauer suggests affinities between two fictions of immortality, Grass's Flounder and Hamill's Forever, before returning to the downtown scene for remarks on Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre.

Book The American Boys  Book Series Bibliography  1895 1935

Download or read book The American Boys Book Series Bibliography 1895 1935 written by Alan S. Dikty and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1983 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Over There

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew J. Davenport
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2015-05-12
  • ISBN : 1250056446
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book First Over There written by Matthew J. Davenport and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the U.S. Army's 1st Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man's-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II twenty-six years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport's First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny. The first American battle of the "war to end all wars" would mark not only its first victory abroad, but the birth of its modern Army.

Book The Colonel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Norton Smith
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-19
  • ISBN : 0810120399
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book The Colonel written by Richard Norton Smith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the acclaimed biography of a giant of American journalism. As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormick's personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure known as The Colonel.

Book The Literary Digest History of the World War

Download or read book The Literary Digest History of the World War written by Francis Whiting Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a general military and diplomatic history of the First World War, from June 1914 to May 1920. Military affairs are the foremost issue, with political and diplomatic events relevant to the war intertwined. The work includes short biographies of important military leaders.

Book Poor Little Rich Boy  and how He Made Good

Download or read book Poor Little Rich Boy and how He Made Good written by Gwen Morgan and published by Crossroads International. This book was released on 1985 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Texas World War Heroes

Download or read book History of Texas World War Heroes written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Times Index

Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sons of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Wawro
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2018-09-25
  • ISBN : 0465093922
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book Sons of Freedom written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "stirring," definitive history of America's decisive role in winning World War I (Wall Street Journal). The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But as Geoffrey Wawro shows in Sons of Freedom, the French and British were on the verge of collapse in 1918, and would have lost the war without the Doughboys. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, described the Allied victory as a "miracle" -- but it was a distinctly American miracle. In Sons of Freedom, prize-winning historian Geoffrey Wawro weaves together in thrilling detail the battles, strategic deliberations, and dreadful human cost of the American war effort. A major revision of the history of World War I, Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the United States as the greatest of the great powers.