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War Relief In World War Ii: Women And The American Red Cross, Rebecca L. Trecek

Graduate Review

This paper recognizes the growth of the American Red Cross (ARC) and the contributions women throughout the network of the ARC made to various goals during World War Two. This paper focuses on the work women completed particularly on the home front. While some aspects of the ARC are publicized, others, particularly on the home front, are less well-known. As the demands for women within multiple aspects of the American workforce grew, organizations like the American Red Cross contributed to bridging the gap between women in the workforce and home needs. ARC volunteers also took on the responsibility of recruiting …

Is Humanitarian Aid Neutral? The American Ambulance Field Service And The American Red Cross, Laura Neis

Madison Historical Review

The United States did not outwardly join WWI until April of 1917. However, in the nearly three years in which the U.S. was neutral, they provided medical support to the suffering. This act has been dismissed as humanitarian charity work, and therefore not breaking with neutrality agreements, but it was actually a hotly contested act of foreign policy, and different propaganda campaigns were used to change the minds of American citizens.

Two different groups of medical volunteers show how humanitarian aid shapes perspectives on war. The American Ambulance Field Service drove ambulances for the French army on the front line, …

"After All, Who Takes Care Of The Red Cross's Morale?": The Experiences Of American Red Cross Clubmobile Women During World War Ii, Paige Gulley

War, Diplomacy, and Society (MA) Theses

This thesis examines the experiences of the women who served in the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Their job required them to travel through England, France, and even Germany in converted buses and 2 ½ ton trucks, serving coffee, donuts, and a smile to soldiers just off the front lines. Though considered essential to maintaining soldiers’ morale, historians have virtually ignored these women’s experiences and role in the war. The inattention to their participation by the academic community parallels the disregard the women faced during the war. Clubmobile women encountered …

Clara Barton National Historic Site (Glen Echo, Maryland), Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

The home of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, is part of a national historic site managed by the National Park Service. This site interprets the contributions of Barton and the Red Cross.

Women At War, Lacy Hollingsworth

History Class Publications

American women contributed to the Great War in many ways. Women were nurses, volunteers, clerks; each of these jobs was helping women gain agency in their work and also helping their cry for suffrage. Some of American women’s greatest contributions were on the frontline of the war in Europe. The women who were on the frontline of the war were specifically nurses and more specifically they asked to be put on the frontlines of the war. The American Red Cross organization was the best organization that gave women opportunities to volunteer to serve the United States, but the United States …

Green Collection (Mss 49), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 49. Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence for several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.

Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That the Public Loved is an article concerning the private zoo in Holland, Michigan, that was owned by Chicago coal merchant George Fulmer Getz and helped form the Illionois based Brookfiekd Zoo and John Ball Zoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 12, 1942, Margaret Hirashima

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston Relocation Center newspaper covers Poston committees, children's benefit event, Poston newspaper magazine, sports event and rules, sport results, new clinic, Religious services, wartime weather, safety classes, adult classes, social events, Lost and found, sports game results, scheduled weather, Feminine Touch, Sunday comics and an editorial.

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 10, 1942, Isao Fukuba

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston Relocation Center newspaper covers settled negotiations, new press machine, allowances, special holiday magazine, an editorial, announcements, statements, weather, social events, class registrations, census data, new and remodeled spaces, birth notices, first aid classes, religious services, library donations, sports score results cancelled sports classes, and social tournament,

Press Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 14, 1942, Kaz Oka

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston newspaper covers evacuee trust fund, Nisei soldiers, Community council approval, work pay, Poston Fair events, employment ads, film exhibit, teachers welcomed, pro-rated supplies, letters to Japan, agricultural project, wedding announcements, Poston I Cooperative Congress, birth announcements, plumbing issues, social clubs and activities, social events, health department inspection, volunteers for outside work, government property, housing supplies, donations and sports results.

Press Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 12, 1942, Unknown Unknown

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston newspaper covers Poston County Fair, working conditions, accidents, event schedule, personal stories, safety classes, "outside friends, arts and craft classes, smallpox, elections, Sunday school programs, social events, sports events and comics.

Press Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 2, 1942, Margaret Hirashima

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

October 8, 1942 Poston Relocation Center newspaper. Covers meeting about drawing up a Constitution for Poston relocation center, student leaving for college, Nisei and Issei concerns, farming and landscaping improvements, health cautions, snake awareness, social activities, safety classes, boxing match,baseball and softball game results, Yuma County Fair

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 52, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Archives Records

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. This show included Earl Moore, Henry Cherry, Joe Seemes, Raymond Hill and Kelly Thompson talking about the Louisville flood and refugees housed at WKU.

Letter From Eliot Wadsworth To Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, November 8, 1918, Eliot Wadsworth

World War I Era Documents, 1914-1918

A typed letter from Eliot Wadsworth to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated November 8, 1918. Within, Wadsworth informs Wilson that it would not be advisable to accept Wilson's offer in providing foreign service to the Red Cross.