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Remembering The Forgotten Genocide: Armenia In The First World War., Dana Renee Smythe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Ottoman Empire was in serious decline by the late nineteenth century. Years of misrule, war, and oppression of its various nationalities had virtually driven the Turks from Europe, leaving the weakened Empire on the verge of collapse. By the 1870s the Armenians were the most troubling group, having gained international sympathy at the Congress of Berlin. As a result, violence against the Armenians had escalated dramatically by the turn of the century. They felt, however, that their fortune had changed when the liberal Young Turks seized power from the Sultan in 1908. Unfortunately, the Young Turks had a much …

Rice Collection (Mss 47), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 47. Includes letters; business papers and contracts; research materials and notes; original and typed manuscripts of poems, short stories and books; photographs; cartoons; book reviews and clippings; and scrapbooks of Cale Young Rice (1872-1943), poet and author, and of Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), author, of Louisville, Kentucky.

Ms-024: Papers Of The Major General Charles A. Willoughby, Jaclyn Campbell

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Major General Charles Andre Willoughby was born as Adolph C. Weidenbach in Heidelberg, Germany, March 8, 1892 to Baron T. von Tscheppe-Weidenbach of Baden, Germany, and Emmy Willoughby of Baltimore, Maryland. He attended several schools in both Germany and France, learning German, French, and Spanish, before moving to the United States to be with relatives in 1910. Willoughby enlisted in the Regular Army and was a private, corporal, and sergeant between 1910 and 1913, when he entered Gettysburg College. While at Gettysburg, he founded the college’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). He graduated in 1914 and received his commission as …

Harris Family Papers (Mss 100), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 100. Correspondence of the Harris family of Simpson County, Kentucky. Consists chiefly of World War I letters sent from two brothers, George DeWitt Harris and Downey L. Harris, to their parents, George Calvin Harris and Amanda J. Harris, of Franklin, Kentucky. George DeWitt Harris was injured in World War I and died at Epionville, France on 7 October 1918.

Stories To Warm The Heart Part One, Kemp N. Mabry, Delma E. Presley

Bulloch County Historical Society Publications

A collection of articles by Dr. Kemp Mabry originally published in the Statesboro Herald. Among the topics Dr. Mabry wrote about are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry, William Key’s The Battle of Atlanta and the Georgia Campaign, Kennesaw Mountain, Camp Andersonville, Georgia’s connection to Europe, and recollections of World War II. The postscript to this collection is an autobiographical piece, also published in the Statesboro Herald.

Grinstead, James David, 1894-1976 (Sc 1371), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1371. Letters written by James D. "Jim" Grinstead, Barren County, Kentucky, to his family following his induction into the armed forces. All letters were penned from U.S. military camps. Also family letters, 1920.

Review Of "America's Great War: World War I And The American Experience" By Robert Zieger, Jennifer D. Keene

History Faculty Articles and Research

This is a review of Robert Zieger's "America's Great War: World War I And The American Experience."

Ms-004: Papers Of Frank H. Kramer, Class Of 1914, Christine M. Ameduri

All Finding Aids

The Frank H. Kramer Collection is arranged into six Series. I. Personal Information; II. Organizations, Committees & Events; III. Education Department; IV. Oriental Art; V. Scrapbooks and VI. Miscellaneous. Of special note to researchers are the photo album of campus life in the nineteen-teens, scrapbook of commencement activities between 1939 and 1948 and correspondence from soldiers in camp during WWI.

Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our …

Sir Hiram Maxim And His Gun: A Literary Trail, Charles Shain

Maine History

Hiram Maxim, born near Sangerville, Maine, in 1840, enjoyed a brilliant career as an inventor and self-promotor. His best-known invention, the Maxim gun, proved appallingly successful during the British imperialistic ventures in Africa at the turn of the century and later in World War I. In this article, Emeritus Professor Charles Shain traces the literary usages for Maxim ’s invention, both as noun and as a verb - describing the scything action of the gun as it mowed down an advancing foe. Charles Shain published and taught in the field of American Studies at Carleton College and for twelve years …

Labor, The Law, And Economics: The Organization Of The Chicago Flat Janitors' Union, 1902-1917, John Jentz

Library Faculty Research and Publications

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The Home Trenches: The Program To Increase Food Production And Conservation In Utah During World War One, Alene Estelle Alder

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Wars are not just won on the battle field but on the home front as well. Soldiers cannot fight on empty stomachs or without weapons. "The Man who tills the soil and supports the soldier in the field and the family at home is rendering as noble and patriotic service as is the man who bears the blunt of the battle" 1 It was necessary to mobilize the entire country in support of the Great War. To feed our soldiers and those of our allies, a call rang forth encouraging American farmers to increase crop production, and housewives to conserve …

Jones, Howard Malcolm And Frances (Young) Jones Collection (Mss 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 103. Papers collected by Howard Malcolm Jones and his wife Frances (Young) Jones of Glasgow, Kentucky. The collection contains the papers of several families from Barren County, Kentucky, including: Eubanks, Huggins, Jones, Smith, Warder, White and Young. Collection also contains information about Barren County history and includes some Barren County court records.

Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

My dear parents,

Tomorrow the last steamship that can bring you our Christmas greetings is leaving, so that means: hurry. Just a few words, but from the heart.

One is carried along here in the non-ending stream of business so much that one can hardly catch one's breath in order to appreciate the ideal side of life. However, with the approach of the holidays, spirits are lifted. With great excitement and wonderment, young and old await the festive days. What will Christmas bring, how will the New Year begin? This is what each one is asking himself and with thousands …

0559: Benson J. Lubin Papers, 1904-1935, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Huntington, West Virginia, businessman, real estate agent. Papers relate primarily to his service in the first world war as a second lieutenant in the 58th Balloon Company, A.E.F., in France and include embarkation, payroll and other papers related to his duties as officer in charge of African American Brest Casual Company 1740 during its demobilization period; photographs and negatives.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Benson J. Lubin Papers, 1904-1935 here.

The Providence Journal, The Providencer Anzeiger, And The Attack On All Things German In The United States During The First World War, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

This is the text of a paper submitted in 1992 by Andrée Rathemacher as the final project for an Independent Study course at Brown University. The Independent Study, with Professor Duncan Smith, was titled "The Image of Germany in America, 1871-1917." The paper examines two newspapers — the Providence Journal and the Providencer Anzeiger — and attempts to trace how the attack on Germany and on all things German in the United States during the first World War played out in and on both newspapers. The Providence Journal is especially significant in this study, as its editor was a leading …

Susannah And Samuel L. Walker Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Finding Aids

This collection consists of materials related to the Susannah and Samuel L. Walker family spanning from 1810 to 1948. Materials include nineteenth and early twentieth correspondence, land plats and deeds, financial records, receipts, and photographic materials from the 1920s.

Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 38, No. 3, Amos Long Jr., Robert P. Stevenson, Dale E. Skoff, William B. Fetterman

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Wayside Inn
• A Draft Board in World War I
• The Compass Inn: A Stagecoach Era Legacy
• The Pennsylvania German Dialect Playwriting Contests of 1941, 1942, 1983 and 1986
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Price, Joseph Llewellyn, 1877-1949 (Mss 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 88. Chiefly legal papers of Marshall County, Kentucky, attorney Joseph L. Price, during the time he practiced law in Benton, Kentucky, 1910-1922. Material related to Prices' work as the Food Administrator for Marshall County during World War I, and other World War I related materials are included also. Contents about the American Protective League in Box 1 have been scanned and added to this record (Click on "Additional Files" below).

New England Pilots In The Lafayette Flying Corps, William F. Hanna

Bridgewater Review

The Lafayette Flying Corps was the name given to a group of American pilots who flew with the French Air Service during World War 1. More than 200 Americans became expatriates, for a time at least, in order to try to qualify to fly the latest French fighter planes against the Germans. By war's end the 180 who succeeded were serving in 93 French squadrons. Although most later transferred to the U.S. Air Service, it was their days in the Lafayette Flying Corps and its most elite squadron, the Lafayette Escadrille which recalled the fondest memories among survivors. Of the …

Interview With Allyene Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Allyene Gregory conducted by Steve Vied for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Sorgho, Daviess County, Kentucky, education, childhood games, her father's farm, African Americans, social customs and historic events in the community, as well as her teaching career.

Interview With Corinne Taylor Gregory Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Corinne (Taylor) Gregory conducted by Paul Eubanks for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Gregory discusses her life and times, including information about education for women and job opportunities for women, World War II, food preservation, foodways, and public health. Gregory was from Beaver Dam, Ohio County, Kentucky.

Interview With Nellie Hall Regarding Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Nellie Hall conducted by Gary Netzley for an oral history project titled "A Generation Remembers, 1900-1949." Hall discusses her life and times, including information about growing up in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, her relationship with an alcoholic and abusive husband, her work in a cigar factory, her memories of recreation as a child, education, World War I, World War II, and the medical problems faced by various members of her family.

Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral interview with Virginia Pannell about her life and times conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "Do You Remember When, 1900-1949." In the interview Pannell discusses her life in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She talks about teachers and teaching, schools, education, politics, health care, World War I, World War II, Influenza, radios, B. Mathis, coal mines and mining, strikes, telephones, vigilantism, Prohibition, rationing and religion.

Marcus Lee Hansen: America's First Transethnic Historian, Moses Rischin

The Bridge

In a world in flux, the historian must strike a balance between change and tradition. The historian of American immigration and culture particularly sits poised on the knife's edge, seeking universal categories of analysis and understanding while immersing himself in a loving study of distinct peoples, places, and ways of life in disarray. He is the boomer engineer committed to democracy and equality, progress and growth, mobility and technology, science and medicine, individualism and freedom. But he is also the artist, priest, and guardian of culture, the admirer of fragile arts and crafts and tastes perfected over generations, of customs, …

The Immigrant's Challenge To Dahs, Otto G. Hoiberg

The Bridge

During the half century preceding World War I, 300,000 Danish immigrants came to America, according to an estimate by Kristian Hvidt. Why did they come? Among many reasons, the Homestead Act of 1862 certainly stands out prominently. To the small-acreage farmers and the hired men in Danish agriculture, 160 acres of free, fertile land looked mighty inviting. Enthusiasm for migration was also generated by the glowing "Garden of Eden" advertising campaign conducted by America's railroads - a worthy prototype for today's Madison Avenue. Further, there were the so-called " America Letters" , received from relatives and friends already across the …

Interview No. 464, Julio G. Perez

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; experiencias educacionales y laborales; la Revolucion Mexicana, la Depresion, las Guerras Mundiales I y II; su interpretacion de la palabra 'Chicano'.

Interview With Agnes Lawton, Agnes Lawton

Winthrop University Oral History Program

In her November 13, 1980 interview with Lewis P. Armistead, Agnes Lawton relays her family history and career as a teacher. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.

Legal Restrictions On Foreign Languages In The Great Plains States, 1917-1923, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

A major effect of World War I on American social history was that it focused attention on the nation's apparent difficulty in assimilating the millions of immigrants and their children who had streamed to the United States during the preceding two decades. The national mood, darkened by fears and resentments of long standing and deepened by systematic wartime propaganda, favored the adoption of stringent laws limiting the use of foreign languages, especially in the schools. During the war itself, restrictions were usually extralegal and often the consequences of intense social pressure recklessly applied. After the war, however, many state legislatures …

Immigrating To America, Andrew Christensen

The Bridge

To get the proper backdrop for this article, let me quote a few statements from the introduction of an outstanding book on immigration to America, sponsored by the Rebild Society and written by Kristian Hvidt, the Chief Librarian of the Danish Parlimentary Library:

"In the course of the fifty years preceeding the outbreak of World War I in 1914, well over 300,000 Danes left their homeland to become immigrants; ninety percent of them settled in the U.S.A. The illuminating facts stated in human terms show that our grand and great-grandparents saw every tenth one of their countrymen leave their land …

Interview No. 377, Un Joven De Meoqui

Combined Interviews

Cruzo varias veces por el rio. En varias ocasiones paso tambien por "American." Explica que un companero de el lo insultaron y jalaron agentes de la patrulla fronteriza. Actualmente trabaja en un camion. Se queda con un amigo y come donde puede. Explica como su patron cobra $600 dolares por cambiar una cosa mientras ellos reciben unicamente $20 dolares.