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Author : Derek Donovan
Publisher : Kansas City Star Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Liberty Memorial (Kansas City, Mo.)
ISBN : 9780971292017
Author : Allison S. Finkelstein
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817321017
Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I In Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945 Allison S. Finkelstein argues that American women activists considered their own community service and veteran advocacy to be forms of commemoration just as significant and effective as other, more traditional forms of commemoration such as memorials. Finkelstein employs the term “veteranism” to describe these women’s overarching philosophy that supporting, aiding, and caring for those who served needed to be a chief concern of American citizens, civic groups, and the government in the war’s aftermath. However, these women did not express their views solely through their support for veterans of a military service narrowly defined as a group predominantly composed of men and just a few women. Rather, they defined anyone who served or sacrificed during the war, including women like themselves, as veterans. These women veteranists believed that memorialization projects that centered on the people who served and sacrificed was the most appropriate type of postwar commemoration. They passionately advocated for memorials that could help living veterans and the families of deceased service members at a time when postwar monument construction surged at home and abroad. Finkelstein argues that by rejecting or adapting traditional monuments or by embracing aspects of the living memorial building movement, female veteranists placed the plight of all veterans at the center of their commemoration efforts. Their projects included diverse acts of service and advocacy on behalf of people they considered veterans and their families as they pushed to infuse American memorial traditions with their philosophy. In doing so, these women pioneered a relatively new form of commemoration that impacted American practices of remembrance, encouraging Americans to rethink their approach and provided new definitions of what constitutes a memorial. In the process, they shifted the course of American practices, even though their memorialization methods did not achieve the widespread acceptance they had hoped it would. Meticulously researched, Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials utilizes little-studied sources and reinterprets more familiar ones. In addition to the words and records of the women themselves, Finkelstein analyzes cultural landscapes and ephemeral projects to reconstruct the evidence of their influence. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how American women supported the military from outside its ranks before they could fully serve from within, principally through action-based methods of commemoration that remain all the more relevant today.
Author : Paul Kirkman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144407
Kansas City is often seen as a "cow town" with great barbecue and steaks. But it is also a city with more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains than Rome. There are burial mounds that date back more than two thousand years. The National World War I Museum and Memorial, opened in 1926, stands more than two hundred feet tall. Leila's Hair Museum has a collection that brings tourists from all over the nation. The Kansas City Jazz Museum features a historic district and world-class museum that document a time when dance halls, cabarets, speakeasies and even honky-tonks and juke joints fostered the development of a new musical style. Join author Paul Kirkman as he cuts a trail past the stockyards into the heart of America--Kansas City.
Author : Patty Sotirin,Steven A. Walton,Sue Collins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527553507
This collection offers a multifaceted exploration of World War One and its aftermath in the northern American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. The chapters feature archival and newspaper documentation and visual imagery from this era. The first section, “Heartland Histories,” explores experiences of conscription and home front mobilization in the small communities of the heartland, highlighting tensions associated with patriotism, class, ethnicities, and locale. In one chapter, the previously unpublished cartoon art of a USAF POW displays his Midwestern sensibilities. Section Two, “Homefront Propaganda,” examines the cultural networks disseminating national war messages, notably the critical work of local theaters, Four Minute Men, the Allied War Exhibitions, and the local commemorative displays of military relics. Section Three, “Gender in/and War,” highlights aspects often over-shadowed by male experiences of the war itself, including the patriotic mother, androgynous representations in wartime propaganda, and masculine violence following the war. Together, this volume provides rich portraits of the complexities of heartland home front experiences and legacies.
Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9780415280549
In its multidisciplinary approach and wide-ranging contributions, the book looks at trench art and postcards through museum collections to prosthetic limbs, and examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind.
Author : Mark Levitch
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826265555
Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015071443116
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025940444
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Kansas
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100151596
1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
Author : Geraldine Schwarz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501199103
“[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be.” —The New Yorker “Riveting…we can never be reminded too often to never forget.” —The Wall Street Journal Journalist Géraldine Schwarz’s astonishing memoir of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II “also serves as a perceptive look at the current rise of far-right nationalism throughout Europe and the US” (Publishers Weekly). During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer—those who followed the current. Once the war ended, they wanted to bury the past under the wreckage of the Third Reich. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her paternal grandfather Karl took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. She finds letters from the only survivor of this family (all the others perished in Auschwitz), demanding reparations. But Karl Schwarz refused to acknowledge his responsibility. Géraldine starts to question the past: How guilty were her grandparents? What makes us complicit? On her mother’s side, she investigates the role of her French grandfather, a policeman in Vichy. Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology, overcome by a fog of denial after the war, and, in Germany at least, eventually managed to transform collective guilt into democratic responsibility. She asks: How can nations learn from history? And she observes that countries that avoid confronting the past are especially vulnerable to extremism. Searing and unforgettable, Those Who Forget “deserves to be read and discussed widely...this is Schwarz’s invaluable warning” (The Washington Post Book Review).
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Kansas
ISBN : NYPL:33433084785611
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Kansas
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106122934
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110923445
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433036428070
Author : Diane Mutti Burke,Jason Roe,John Herron
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700627066
Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.
