Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Michele Curran Cornell

Titel

Americans’ Personal Motivations and the Great War: Love and Death in the Great War

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2019, Vol.18 (2), p.256-258

Ort / Verlag

Normal: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Huebner captures the intersections of personal emotions, individual war experiences, public discourse, national culture, and wartime policies and events at the national and local levels to reveal how behavioral expectations created a politically advantageous “white male monopoly” on chivalry and “martial honor,” which women and African Americans challenged during their wartime service (2). The literature on the Great War tends to compartmentalize the study of World War I into categories like soldiers and the military, diplomats and politics, women and the home front, African Americans and race relations, or immigrants and ethnic identity. Some of the most memorable narratives include Eliga Dees, a career soldier with a seventh grade education, and his wife, Mae, a young schoolteacher living in the Ozarks; Arthur Huebner, a German American draftee from rural Wisconsin; Waring Huston, a college-educated, homesick volunteer from an Alabama military family with both Confederate and Revolutionary War heritage; Natalie Scott, an accomplished Red Cross nurse; the African American soldiers of New York's segregated 369th Infantry; a decorated and celebrated combat soldier from Tennessee, Alvin York; and William Buckner, an African American Kentuckian serving with the 313th Labor Battalion who was accused of raping a French woman.