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"They Could Not Guard Against It": The Failed U.S. Policy Response To German Sabotage At Black Tom Island, Benjamin Smith
"They Could Not Guard Against It": The Failed U.S. Policy Response To German Sabotage At Black Tom Island, Benjamin Smith
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
In the early morning hours of 31 July 1916, German agents successfully detonated a storage facility on an island in New York Harbor named Black Tom. The facility was filled with munitions meant for the Allied powers fighting against Germany in World War I. It was at that time the single most destructive subversive act ever perpetrated on U.S. soil. But it is not surprising that such an act occurred: the United States had no specialized counter-espionage agency and the area had relatively little protection. The remarkable thing is the miniscule amount of attention Black Tom, along with other instances …
The Men Who Could Speak Japanese: The Navy Japanese Language School At Boulder, Colorado (1942-1946) And The Legacy Of World War Ii Japanese-Language Officers, Katherine White
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
On their last day of class at the US Navy Japanese Language School (USNJLS or JLS), Captain Roger Pineau and his fellow classmates waited in a room on the second floor of the University of Colorado library. They had spent the last eleven months immersed in a rigorous study of the Japanese language, and today their teachers had promised a sample of what they would experience as Japanese-language officers in the Pacific War. The six students sat intently as their conversation sensei (teacher) entered the classroom, removed a Japanese newspaper from his briefcase, placed his pocket watch on the table, …
The Mutation Of The Model Man: 1936-1945, Andrea Rassmussen
The Mutation Of The Model Man: 1936-1945, Andrea Rassmussen
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing
Masculinity, or the ideal male model, differed significantly in the war years from the late 1930s. This evolution can be seen through articles in Coronet, in which the majority of stories had male heroes whose physical characteristics, personalities, and social graces all changed as the war started and progressed. The ideal man shifted from the Successful Businessman of the 30s to the Individualistic Team Player of the 40s. I chose these names because they encapsulate the contradiction that made up the model man of the war years. No more was the ideal a cutthroat businessman concerned with nothing except succeeding, …
Interview With Jay Fraser, Malcolm Maclean, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Interview With Jay Fraser, Malcolm Maclean, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History collection
Jay Fraser and Malcolm MacLean were interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 12, 1990. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!
Interview With Moses M. Coleman, Jr, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Interview With Moses M. Coleman, Jr, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History collection
Moses M. Coleman, Jr, interviewed by Esther Mallard, March 3, 1993. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Knott Family Papers (Mss 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 675. Papers and photographs of James Proctor Knott, Lebanon, Kentucky, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" (McElroy) Knott. Includes two journals of Sallie Knott covering the first eight years of their marriage (Click on "Additional Files" below to view typescripts), and miscellaneous papers of a related family, the Clarks.
The Battle Fdr Lost:The Failed Nomination Of Boss Ed Flynn As Minister To Australia, Michael J. Birkner
The Battle Fdr Lost:The Failed Nomination Of Boss Ed Flynn As Minister To Australia, Michael J. Birkner
History Faculty Publications
Shortly after Christmas in 1942, the U.S. minister to Australia, Nelson Trusler Johnson, decided the time was right for a break from his wartime duties. Johnson and his wife, Jane, agreed that a seaside vacation with their young children was in order. The Johnson family duly motored to Narooma, about 150 miles southeast of Canberra, for what they expected to be a three-week holiday during the peak of the Australian summer. They chose the spot for its beauty—and because the children would be able to swim without worrying about sharks.The Johnsons’ holiday was cut short on January 8, when wire …
Flood Of Change: The Vanport Flood And Race Relations In Portland, Oregon, Michael James Hamberg
Flood Of Change: The Vanport Flood And Race Relations In Portland, Oregon, Michael James Hamberg
All Master's Theses
This thesis examines race relations amid dramatic social changes caused by the migration of African Americans and other Southerners into Portland, Oregon during World War II. The migrants lived in a housing project named Vanport and an exploration behind Portlanders’ negative opinion of newcomers will be undertaken. A history of African Americans in Oregon will open the paper and the analysis of events leading up to a 1948 flood that destroyed the housing project and resulted in a refugee and housing crisis will comprise the middle of the paper. Lastly, an examination of whether or not an improvement in race …
Nation-Building Is An Oxymoron, M. Chris Mason
Nation-Building Is An Oxymoron, M. Chris Mason
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, David Lee, 1923-2000 (Sc 2799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2799. Typescripted personal history of David Lee Bryant (1923-2000) describing his upbringing in Todd County, Kentucky, his World War II military service, his capture by the Germans and liberation by the Russian Army, his subsequent work for a wholesale grocery firm, and his wife and three sons. Includes article about Bryant published 5 February 1986 in the (Greenville, Kentucky) Leader-News, and explanatory letter of his son Gary L. Bryant, 21 November 2013.
A Contested Policy: Irish And American Perspectives On Eire's Neutrality, Leah Egofske
A Contested Policy: Irish And American Perspectives On Eire's Neutrality, Leah Egofske
All Theses
Although the Irish Free State had close relations and connections to the United Kingdom from its inception in 1922, Eire pursued a policy of neutrality throughout the Second World War. Although the majority of the Irish population supported neutrality, it attracted much criticism in Britain and America. The aim of this study is to explore Irish men and women's experience with neutrality alongside how American newspapers as well as American war correspondents based in Britain addressed and viewed Ireland's neutrality. In many ways, the Irish benefited from the policy of neutrality and the small nation was united on a level …
Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Pearl Perguson Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of an interview with Pearl Perguson conducted by Kevin Eans for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Perguson discusses her life and times, including information about social life and reactions to national events in the small town of Horse Branch, Ohio County, Kentucky.
Hill, Elighu Eldrid, Bronx African American History Project
Hill, Elighu Eldrid, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Eldrid Hill
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Niason, Ricardo Soto-Lopez, Dana Driskell
Summarized by Sheina Ledesma
Eldrid Hill is a former lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department who has been a long time resident of both Harlem and the Bronx. He has also been deeply involved in local politics and urban planning and a member of Community Board 3 in the Bronx for several decades. Hill was born on July 12, 1928 in Harlem. His mother was from the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin while his father was from St. Kitts. His father was an alcoholic …
Peterson, Robert, Mark Naison
Peterson, Robert, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Robert Peterson
Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Kathleen Palmer
Date of Interview: August 5, 2009
Summarized by Michael Kavanagh
Born in Brooklyn, December 18th 1926, Peterson has lived in the Bronx most of his life. His Father’s parents were first generation European immigrants from Sweden and Norway, respectively. They both settled in Yonkers, NY, where they first met and later got married. In 1895, Peterson’s father was born in Yonkers, NY. At the beginning of World War I, his father joined the United States Navy as a ship navigator. When World War I ended, his father returned home and worked …
Nesbitt, Robert, Bronx African American History Project
Nesbitt, Robert, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Robert Nesbitt (b. January 8, 1924) was a soldier in the Tuskegee Airmen unit during World War II. He was born in Harlem, on 125th St. and Broadway, the son of an ex-military father from South Carolina and a mother from North Carolina. During this time, Harlem was fairly integrated: his neighbors included blacks as well as Irish, Jews, and Italians. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Corona in Queens, to an almost universally black neighborhood. Unlike many young African-American men, Nesbitt attended high school at Haarem high, where he developed a passion for mechanics …
Brown, Roscoe, Bronx African American History Project
Brown, Roscoe, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison
INTERVIEWEE: Roscoe Brown
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Roscoe Brown is the head of a Center for Urban Education at CUNY. He grew up in Washington, DC during the Great Depression. Educated at Dunbar high school in DC and Springfield College in Massachusetts, Brown joined the Tuskegee Airmen in 1943. At Springfield, Brown was one of only 15 black students. He studied Pre-Med and played football, basketball and lacrosse—in fact, he was one of the first black lacrosse players in America.
Brown flew 68 missions with the airmen, and participated in the longest mission of all time: a …
Bataan, Joe, Bronx African American History Project
Bataan, Joe, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
173/4(?)th Interview
Interviewee: Joe Bataan
Interviewer: Mark Naison, Maxine Gordon
Interview took place June 12, 2006
Summarized by Concetta Gleason 2-1-07
Bataan Nitalano’s mother is African-American and his father is Philippine. His father joined the navy and did a lot of seasonal work as a short-order cook. Bataan would see his father only six months of the year. His racially mixed family was a rarity in Spanish Harlem where he grew up. His father was Catholic and his mother encouraged his attending Church. Although the neighborhood was mostly Spanish, there was a lot of Blacks, Chinese and Jewish people …
Tolkien As A Post-War Writer, Tom Shippey
Tolkien As A Post-War Writer, Tom Shippey
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
The Lord of the Rings, though unique in many ways, is only one of a series of fantasies published by English authors before, during, and just after World War II, works united in their deep concern with the nature of evil and their authors’ belief that politics had given them a novel understanding of this ancient concept. This paper sets Tolkien in this contemporary context and considers what has been unique in his understanding of the modern world.
The Clouds: A Portrait Of One Family In Wartime Cambridge, Fanny Howe
The Clouds: A Portrait Of One Family In Wartime Cambridge, Fanny Howe
New England Journal of Public Policy
The following is a portion of a work in progress, a biography of Mark DeWolfe and Helen Howe, two Bostonians born soon after the turn of the century. The book describes the adult years of this sister and brother, each of whom participated in American life at many levels important to the social and intellectual currents of the country. This section of the biography describes Cambridge in the World War II years.
Treason And Talking: Three Wartime Broadcasters, Mary M. Roberts
Treason And Talking: Three Wartime Broadcasters, Mary M. Roberts
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Radio propaganda was one of the chief weapons of psychological warfare used by the Nazis. When Hitler came to power, one of the aims of Nazi propaganda was to make his new order acceptable to the powers abroad, before preparing the ground for his expansionist moves. The new ruler of Germany regarded propaganda, rather then diplomacy, as the more suitable instrument to attain the desired end.
As a result of this new weapon in propaganda, there came many problems for the home front. How could they maintain the faith and morale of the people being submitted to this constant barrage? …
Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke
Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Three Centuries of Thanksgiving
Magic of Melody
Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)
Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)
Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town
Class Teaching in Applied Music
Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner
Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)
06/02/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein
06/02/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein
Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence
Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding attendance at Saturday services; life on base; colleague at ordnance depot; pamphlets received in the mail; Churchill.
Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), James Francis Cooke
Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Dawn on the Horizon
Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves
Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)
Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge
How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)
Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes
If Parents Had Had Their Way
Music as a Living, Human Element
New York's First Opera
What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words
Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)
Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music
Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …
Ua94/5/6 Mission Accomplished: Africa, Sicily, Italy, U.S. Army
Ua94/5/6 Mission Accomplished: Africa, Sicily, Italy, U.S. Army
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
U.S. Army publication removed from Lucian Flora's scrapbook regarding the World War II campaign through North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
Ua94/5/6 Highlights Of My Army Career, Lucian Flora
Ua94/5/6 Highlights Of My Army Career, Lucian Flora
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Memoir of army life during World War II by Smiths Grove native Lucian Flora. See also his World War II scrapbook.
Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke
Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music of the Spheres
Beware of Discordant Voices
Music American Doughboys Hear in India
Compleat Musical Home: What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Musical Results
Fifty Years of Settlement Music: Important Anniversary of the Creation of a Valuable Movement
Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg: A Musical Playlet for Young Folks
The Winnah
Physical Coördination in Singing (interview with Maria Kurenko)
Creating a Durable Musical Memory
Musical Fathers and Sons
Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6, by Franz Liszt
Volume 60, Number 04 (April 1942), James Francis Cooke
Volume 60, Number 04 (April 1942), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music a Permanent Art
Sir Thomas Beecham Has His Say: A Striking Feuilleton Upon England's Distinguished Orchestral Conductor
Shepherds' Pipes for Modern Players
Easter, the Alleluja Season
Bombs, Bands and Bonds: Los Angeles County Band Sells Thousands of Dollars Worth a Day
Rhythm Must Be Felt: Learn the Secrets of Rhythm by Tapping It
Handel's Messiah Two Centuries Old: A Colorful Picture of the Development of the World's Most Famous Oratorios
Jánossys and Johnsons
Look Your Best to Capture Public Favor: Crank Up Your Curls and Exercise Off the Bulge if You Would Succeed with the Public
Save the Child …