...This chapter explores new interconnections between private and public life, the provincial home and the global stage, in Mothers of France, a patriotic film that was made to encourage Americans—particularly women—to participate in World War I. More specifically, it considers how...

...This introductory chapter analyzes how conflicting impulses for loyalty and liberty shaped the politics of countersubversion between World War I and the McCarthy era. By examining the ways this intellectual problem manifested in various historical contexts, the chapter uncovers a history of fits...

...This chapter recenters the narrative around Arnold Horween. He starts for the Harvard freshman team in 1916, but his second and third college seasons are interrupted by World War I. Horween enlists in the navy, like his older brother. But Horween is discharged and gains fame as a Harvard star...

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...This chapter examines the role played by the Socialist Party in shaping the political debate over Woodrow Wilson's neutrality and preparedness policies following the outbreak of World War I. It considers how the Socialist Party sought to create a viable working-class antiwar movement, declaring...

... revolution that overthrew the Czar. It then discusses the debate over the collaborationist strategies of AFL and the prowar Socialists throughout World War I, along with the antiwar culture of the Industrial Workers of the World and its decision to continue strike and organizing activities despite government...

...This chapter examines the juxtaposition of war and gender in The Backwash of War, a collection of thirteen short stories by Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) based on her experience as a volunteer nurse in Belgium at a hospital behind the French lines during World War I. La...

...This chapter examines William Faulkner's war novel A Fable, which, by rethinking the story of the Passion of Christ as a World War I tale, criticizes both the ideology of war and those readings of the Scriptures that sustain the theory and the practice of war. Notwithstanding...

... between April and October. Defying conventional views of the modernist little magazine as a fugitive publication, the Seven Arts became an ideal destination for formally experimental American poetry owing to its amateur status. This chapter considers the impact of World War I...

...This chapter examines the United States' chemical warfare program as it developed before the nation began sending soldiers to fight in France during World War I. In 1917, the United States was rapidly and haphazardly putting together a chemical warfare organization capable of a variety...

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... of a countermovement and thus to add to literature on social movement theory. Its findings reveal that most coverage situated the suffrage debate in the context of World War I. Antisuffragists relied on negative discourse that criticized the patriotism of the suffragists and argued that women did not want the added...

...World War I gave John Philip Sousa, always an astute businessman, several opportunities to reshape his image and rebuild his career. Sousa embraced first neutrality, and then preparedness, notably in championing “Wake Up, America” during his residency at New York’s Hippodrome. When the country...

...Symbols like the service flag furthered community morale in the United States during World War I and evolved to engender memorial organizations like Gold Star Mothers. Music supported both, with three components of the industry—Tin Pan Alley, Kitchen Table publishing, and Song Sharks—differing...

... to overcome, such as inclement weather and trouble finding and maintaining adequate places to play. In this chapter, Pittsburgh is a case study highlighting these general developments. Despite early problems, by the start of World War I, Pittsburgh had one of the most vibrant soccer communities in the United...

...Soccer had been played for decades prior to World War I, but the experience of war transformed it from a marginalized pastime into an established part of the American sporting tradition. The chapter tells the stories of Joe Cunat and Maurice Hudson to illustrate how the war contributed...

...This chapter discusses the creation of the Espionage Act of 1917. The act, rooted in the political culture of Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism, is revealed as a political weapon arrayed against opposition to US entry in World War I. That opposition is led by the Socialist Party of America...

...During World War I (1917–18), no races were held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Carl Fisher offered the track to the federal government as an aviation field, and it served as a place where wartime technology was developed by an Italian airplane firm (Pomilio Brothers) and Liberty Bond drives...

... each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. All four were profoundly affected by World War I, and the poetry on their pages responded to the war and its causes with clarity and strength. While subsequent literary history has...

..., and a growing acceptance among Progressive reformers that labor had legitimate grievances. It then turns to the special circumstances of World War I, arguing that while employers considered it politic to rein in their rhetoric and moderate conflict, they never accepted the new situation. Finally, it considers...