Illinois in the Second World War: Operation home front
Author | : Mary Watters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Illinois |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Watters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Illinois |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lisa L. Ossian |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826272010 |
As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort. With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism—historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support. Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa’s farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals—even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa’s sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender—particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work—taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state’s largely homogeneous population. The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers—forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor—speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion—and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as “the Good War.”
Author | : John F. Zwicky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Illinois |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Byron Earhart |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809370085 |
When H. Byron Earhart’s father enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, young Byron and his family moved into his grandparents' old-fashioned home with a coal-fired range and potbelly stove, and his mother took charge of the family business, a frozen food locker. Grandma was the undisputed head of the family. While his father served on the battleship USS Missouri, his grandparents and mother held the family and the business together. At Grandma’s House is a tribute to everyday Americans who provided the social glue for a country at war as they balanced fear and anxiety for loved ones with the challenges and pleasures of daily life. The experiences of the Earhart family and this Midwestern community, supplemented by contemporary documents, family photos, and professional illustrations, recount with vivid local color the drama that played out on the national and international stage.
Author | : Daniel Nelson |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1995-12-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780253328830 |
Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.
Author | : H. Byron Earhart |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809370077 |
Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence Winner, 2021 When H. Byron Earhart’s father enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, young Byron and his family moved into his grandparents' old-fashioned home with a coal-fired range and potbelly stove, and his mother took charge of the family business, a frozen food locker. Grandma was the undisputed head of the family. While his father served on the battleship USS Missouri, his grandparents and mother held the family and the business together. At Grandma’s House is a tribute to everyday Americans who provided the social glue for a country at war as they balanced fear and anxiety for loved ones with the challenges and pleasures of daily life. The experiences of the Earhart family and this Midwestern community, supplemented by contemporary documents, family photos, and professional illustrations, recount with vivid local color the drama that played out on the national and international stage.
Author | : Lois Carrier |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1998-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252068089 |
With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the agricultural heartland, and the Gulf Coast. Writing in a fast-paced, down-to-earth style, Lois Carrier introduces a host of innovations and innovators associated with Illinois: Jane Addams and Louis Armstrong, Frank Lloyd Wright and Walt Disney, Cracker Jack and the Ferris wheel. From the Cahokia Mounds to Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent provides a panoramic history for students and general readers.
Author | : Ronald Glenn Bluemer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Illinois River Valley (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780967368061 |
Home Front describes the civilian response to WWII in Illinois (Putnam, Bureau, Lee, LaSalle Counties) Topics include bond sales, scrap drives, blackouts, rationing, Seneca LST's, Amboy - Green River Ordnance Plant, factory war production in Streator, LaSalle, Mendota, Oglesby. Also includes soldiers' stories from local newspapers
Author | : Mary Watters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bryan J. Ogg |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439665761 |
Since Naperville sprang from the northern Illinois prairie, it has maintained an unmistakably fascinating heritage. The settlers who followed the Napers to the DuPage River had to endure the hardships of felling trees and plowing prairies to make a place to call home. The campuses of the Research and Technology corridor might seem far removed from the travails of those early years, but both are part of the same community. That shared tradition holds surprises such as the location of the Stenger Brewery or the legacy of Peter Kroehler, furniture tycoon, mayor and philanthropist. Bryan Ogg takes stock of the people and events that shaped Naperville from its founding through its current state.