On the Battlefield of Memory : The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941
By: Trout, Steven.
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Electronic Book | UT Tyler Online Online | D524.7.U6 T768 2010 (Browse shelf) | http://uttyler.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=835645 | Available | EBL835645 |
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D523.E79 1 Europe and Ethnicity : | D524.5.T468 2009 Treating the Trauma of the Great War : | D524.6 .P76 2010 Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918. | D524.7.U6 T768 2010 On the Battlefield of Memory : | D528.5 .V47 2000eb The Spirit of 1914 : | D534 .Z5413 2006 War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923. | D570 .C58 2013 The American Expeditionary Force in World War I : |
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: ""Guide-Book Ike""; Introduction: Memory, History, and America's First World War; 1. Custodians of Memory: The American Legion and Interwar Culture; 2. Soldiers Well-Known and Unknown: Monuments to the American Doughboy, 1920-1941; 3. Painters of Memory: Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry; 4. Memory's End?: Quentin Roosevelt, World War II, and America's Last Doughboy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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
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