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Author | : Stan Cohen |
Publisher | : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download V for Victory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.
Author | : William L. Bird |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781568981406 |
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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.
Author | : Aaron Hiltner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022668718X |
Download Taking Leave, Taking Liberties Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.
Author | : Andrew E. Kersten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814748244 |
Download Labor's Home Front Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL’s experiences are scant, with far more on the radical Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). Andrew E. Kersten closes this gap with Labor’s Home Front, challenging us to reconsider the AFL and its influence on twentieth-century history. Kersten details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, its constant battles with the CIO, and its significant efforts to reshape American society, economics, and politics after the war. Throughout, Kersten frames his narrative with an original, central theme: that despite its conservative nature, the AFL was dramatically transformed during World War II, becoming a more powerful progressive force that pushed for liberal change.
Author | : Ronald H. Bailey |
Publisher | : Seafarer Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780809424788 |
Download The Home Front, U.S.A. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Penny Colman |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780613058032 |
Download Rosie the Riveter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An account, based on interviews and other sources, of the women who replaced men in defense plants, factories, offices, and on farms during the Second World War
Author | : Craig Allen Cleve |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004-10-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786418974 |
Download Hardball on the Home Front Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale. More than 400 replacement players made their major league debuts between 1943 and 1945, among them Sal Maglie, Andy Pafko, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial. The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players--Frank Mancuso, Ford Mullen, Ed Carnett, Lee Pfund, George Hausmann, Cy Buker, Bill Lefebvre, Eddie Basinski, and Nick Strincevich--who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing much needed and much wanted entertainment to thousands of Americans during the war years.
Author | : Julian M. Pleasants |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-28 |
Genre | : North Carolina |
ISBN | : 9780813064093 |
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Julian Pleasants offers a grassroots view of World War II's extraordinary impact on the homefront by focusing on the myriad ways, large and small, that the war changed the lives of average citizens. Using oral histories, interviews, and newspaper accounts, Pleasants connects family-level decisions to fundamental social, economic, industrial, and military growth that helped move the Tar hell state toward a more progressive future.
Author | : Mark Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : James L. Abrahamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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"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.