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In Need Of A Hero? The Creation And Use Of The Legend Of General George S. Patton, Jr., Nathan Curtis Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

During WWII, General George Patton became the hero Americans needed through the creation of a self-crafted brand and with help from journalists. After Patton’s death, opportunists forwarded a legend narrative that developed into a collective memory that morphed over time to meet contemporary challenges. Stakeholders of that collective memory commemorated and memorialized the dead hero for monetary and political gain, to promote patriotism, make military doctrinal changes, and even promote peace. Today, this collective memory has potential for the U.S. Army as it transforms civilians into soldiers and officers. This study contributes to history and memory studies by linking representations …

A Call To Arms: A Comparative Study Of Mississippi And Kentucky Citizens During The Secession Crisis, 1859-1861, Amy Myers

Master's Theses

Many studies of the American Civil War have considered why Mississippi leaders voted to secede, while Kentucky politicians remained in the Union. Scholars have previously focused on political elites to understand the underlying motivations behind each state’s decision. These same scholars have often confined their studies to a synthesis of why secession occurred nationally or at the state level. The question remains as to what the common citizen saw and believed when faced with secession and if their views matched their delegates.

This study utilizes the governors’ papers of John J. Pettus and Beriah Magoffin, the Jefferson Davis papers, and …

War, Media, And Memory: American Television News Coverage Of The Vietnam War, Brock J. Vaughan

Bridges: An Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Connections

Social and political impacts of television news coverage of the Vietnam War are often glorified and grossly overestimated. This paper argues that the role of the American media during the war did not directly affect public support for the war, nor did it profoundly impact American nationalism and military policy. Television news coverage did, however, influence how events were perceived and remembered. The commonly held belief that the American news media was directly responsible for the decline of public confidence in the U.S. government, ultimately contributing to the public’s distaste for any further involvement in Vietnam, is a narrow viewpoint …

On "Projecting Stability: A Deployable Nato Police Command", Raymond E. Bell

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Civilians, Urban Warfare, And Us Doctrine, Andrew Bell

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Never Again? Germany's Lessons From The War In Afghanistan, Philipp Münch

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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India And Pakistan: Managing Tensions, Philip K. Kao

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Parameters Winter 2020, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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From The Editor In Chief, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Stability Operations In Ww Ii: Insights And Lessons, Raymond A. Millen

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Contribution Warfare: Sweden's Lessons From The War In Afghanistan, Jan Ångström

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Diverging Interests: Us Strategy In The Middle East, Christopher J. Bolan, Jerad I. Harper, Joel R. Hillison

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Challenging Prevailing Models Of Us Army Suicide, Dr. Tim Hoyt, Dr. Pamela Holtz

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Book Reviews, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Finding Aid For The Allan Boyce Adams Collection (Mum00003)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Allan Boyce Adams was a native of Coahoma County. A graduate of Mississippi College in Clinton, Adams served during World War I in the famed 42nd Rainbow Division. He was a first lieutenant under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur.

Finding A Place For World War I In American History: 1914-2018, Jennifer D. Keene

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"World War I has occupied an uneasy place in the American public and political consciousness.1 In the 1920s and 1930s, controversies over the war permeated the nation’s cultural and political life, influencing memorial culture and governmental policy. Interest in the war, however, waned considerably after World War II, a much larger and longer war for the United States. Despite a plethora of scholarly works examining nearly every aspect of the war, interest in the war remains limited even among academic historians. In many respects, World War I became the “forgotten war” because Americans never developed a unifying collective memory about …

“My Precious Inner Sanctum Remains Untouched, Untrammelled Through War & Famine:” William Allister’S Prisoner Of War Diary, Tim Cook, Britt Braaten

Canadian Military History

This article explores the Second World War prisoner of war diary kept by William Allister, who served with C Force, the Canadian formation sent to garrison the British colony of Hong Kong in late 1941. After the Japanese victory on 25 December 1941, Allister and his fellow survivors endured several years of brutality, malnutrition and disease in the prison camps. In the face of nearly unbelievable hardship, Allister kept a detailed diary and created works of art that provide new insight into the shattering effects of his wartime imprisonment. Allister’s story is included in the Canadian War Museum exhibition Forever …

Harris’S Scientists: Operational Research In Bomber Command, Randall Wakelam

Canadian Military History

This essay describes the contents of a unique post-war report, available online thorough LCMSDS, by the Bomber Command Operational Research Section (ORS) in which the scientists described their mandate, work and contributions to the RAF’s strategic and tactical bombing efforts against Germany. While ORS reports are extensively cited in various histories of the bombing campaign, the processes by which the scientists did their work are not widely known; this essay provides insights into these matters. The essay also gives historical and historiographical context for both reading the report and appreciating the work of Harris’s scientists.

First World War Internment In Canada: Enemy Aliens And The Blurring Of The Military/Civilian Distinction, Bohdan S. Kordan

Canadian Military History

In Canada during the First World War, where aliens of enemy origin were increasingly without work and destitute, internment offered a solution. Interned as prisoners of war (POWs)—a designation that sanctioned voluntary work unrelated to the war—such individuals were sent to frontier labour camps. Their POW designation, however, afforded them certain protections under the laws of war while their status as civilian prisoners suggested they were entitled to even greater consideration than captured combatants. Yet it was precisely their status as civilians that obviated any such consideration. They were not POWs as was conventionally understood. They were interned civilians without …

No Innocence Here: How Irish, Jewish And Italian New Yorkers Benefited From Their Whiteness In Post-World War Ii Nyc, Mark Naison

Occasional Essays

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Tolkien And The Zeppelins, Seamus Hamill-Keays

Journal of Tolkien Research

To devotees of Tolkien, the trench fever that led to his repatriation from the Western Front in November 1916, was a fortuitous circumstance that saved an extraordinary intellect from annihilation in the mud and blood of French or Belgian fields. His return is widely seen as an escape to the peace and quiet of treatment and convalescence in England. Yet his posting to Holderness, in April 1917, placed him in the alarms and excursions of another front line.

This article examines the background to Tolkien’s military duties in the East Riding of Yorkshire from April 1917. The night bombing raids …

The Octofoil, October/November/December 2020, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Before Barbarossa: The Nazi Occupation Of Western Poland, September 1,1939-June 22, 1941, Lauren R. Letizia

Student Publications

The Nazi invasion and occupation of Western Poland was a vital first step to the development and fulfillment of the genocidal processes of the Holocaust. The utilization of mass arrests, executions, and shootings led to the persecution and death of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Polish Jews prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union and inception of the Final Solution in the summer of 1941.

John B. Bachelder’S Artistic Vision For The Gettysburg Battlefield, Shannon R. Zeltmann

Student Publications

John Bachelder was an important artist and historian to Gettysburg, shaping the early interpretation of the battle during the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association period (1863-1895). While he is mainly discussed as the first park historian, it is important to look at his career as an artist and how it influenced his career at Gettysburg. Looking at Bachelder’s entire career, one can see how Bachelder’s vision for the battlefield changed over time. Bachelder wanted to create a grand history painting of the battle, which ultimately became his Isometric Map of Gettysburg. He corresponded with veterans to get their accounts, leading Bachelder …

A Vietnam War-Era Training Village At Fort Jackson, Stacey L. Young

Faculty & Staff Publications

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Castle Pinckney Work Continues- Testing And Monitoring During The Down Season In 2020, John Fisher

Faculty & Staff Publications

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Artillery Ammunition From The 1781 Siege Of Star Fort, James B. Legg

Faculty & Staff Publications

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Legacy - September 2020, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Ancient Weapons from the Siege of Ninety Six…..p. 1

Director’s Notes…..p. 2

New Books Include Contributions by SCIAA Staff…..p. 4

Artillery Ammunition from the 1781 Siege of Star Fort…..p. 5

The Wateree Bug: Hellgrammites, Dobsonflies, and Mississippian Period Potters…..p. 8

Sixteenth-Century Scale Weights from Santa Elena…..p. 12

Update on the Activities of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey (2014-2020)…..p. 17

Field Slave Quarters Discovered at Historic Brattonsville…..p. 23

Castle Pinckney Work Continues: Testing and Monitoring During the Down Season in 2020……p. 26

A Vietnam War-Era Training Village at Fort Jackson…..p. 28

Archaeological Survey at Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site…..p. 31 …

Ancient Weapons From The Siege Of Ninety Six, James B. Legg, Steven D. Smith

Faculty & Staff Publications

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The Failed Powder Boat Explosion During The First Attack On Fort Fisher In December 1864., Christopher Steven Carroll

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

This paper attempts to provide a detailed understanding of how General Benjamin Butler's proposal to detonate an explosive laden ship to secure Fort Fisher and ultimately Wilmington, North Carolina failed because of a flawed plan, a gross failure of communication and a desire for personal glory over intelligent planning led to an embarrassing Union defeat in 1864.