The Army And The Gi Bill

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UCR:31210019447182

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The Army and the GI Bill by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199839995

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The GI Bill by Glenn Altschuler,Stuart Blumin Pdf

On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill. In a brilliant addition to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, historians Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin offer a compelling and often surprising account of the G.I. Bill and its sweeping and decisive impact on American life. Formally known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, it was far from an obvious, straightforward piece of legislation, but resulted from tense political maneuvering and complex negotiations. As Altschuler and Blumin show, an unlikely coalition emerged to shape and pass the bill, bringing together both New Deal Democrats and conservatives who had vehemently opposed Roosevelt's social-welfare agenda. For the first time in American history returning soldiers were not only supported, but enabled to pursue success--a revolution in America's policy towards its veterans. Once enacted, the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences. By providing job training, unemployment compensation, housing loans, and tuition assistance, it allowed millions of Americans to fulfill long-held dreams of social mobility, reshaping the national landscape. The huge influx of veterans and federal money transformed the modern university and the surge in single home ownership vastly expanded America's suburbs. Perhaps most important, as Peter Drucker noted, the G.I. Bill "signaled the shift to the knowledge society." The authors highlight unusual or unexpected features of the law--its color blindness, the frankly sexist thinking behind it, and its consequent influence on race and gender relations. Not least important, Altschuler and Blumin illuminate its role in individual lives whose stories they weave into this thoughtful account. Written with insight and narrative verve by two leading historians, The G.I. Bill makes a major contribution to the scholarship of postwar America.

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199887095

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Soldiers to Citizens by Suzanne Mettler Pdf

"A hell of a gift, an opportunity." "Magnanimous." "One of the greatest advantages I ever experienced." These are the voices of World War II veterans, lavishing praise on their beloved G.I. Bill. Transcending boundaries of class and race, the Bill enabled a sizable portion of the hallowed "greatest generation" to gain vocational training or to attend college or graduate school at government expense. Its beneficiaries had grown up during the Depression, living in tenements and cold-water flats, on farms and in small towns across the nation, most of them expecting that they would one day work in the same kinds of jobs as their fathers. Then the G.I. Bill came along, and changed everything. They experienced its provisions as inclusive, fair, and tremendously effective in providing the deeply held American value of social opportunity, the chance to improve one's circumstances. They become chefs and custom builders, teachers and electricians, engineers and college professors. But the G.I. Bill fueled not only the development of the middle class: it also revitalized American democracy. Americans who came of age during World War II joined fraternal groups and neighborhood and community organizations and took part in politics at rates that made the postwar era the twentieth century's civic "golden age." Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of members of the "greatest generation," Suzanne Mettler finds that by treating veterans as first-class citizens and in granting advanced education, the Bill inspired them to become the active participants thanks to whom memberships in civic organizations soared and levels of political activity peaked. Mettler probes how this landmark law produced such a civic renaissance. Most fundamentally, she discovers, it communicated to veterans that government was for and about people like them, and they responded in turn. In our current age of rising inequality and declining civic engagement, Soldiers to Citizens offers critical lessons about how public programs can make a difference.

Author : Kathleen J. Frydl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 110740293X

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The G.I. Bill by Kathleen J. Frydl Pdf

Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Scholarships
ISBN : MINN:31951002950647Q

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The GI Bill Plus the Army College Fund by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Humes
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626812574

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Over Here by Edward Humes Pdf

Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation—and how they went on to change the country. Inspiring war stories are familiar. But what about after-the-war stories? From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Over Here is the Greatest Generation’s after-the-war story—vivid portraits of how the original G.I. Bill empowered an entire generation and reinvented the nation. The G.I. Bill opened college education to the masses, transformed America from a nation of renters into a nation of homeowners, and enabled an era of prosperity never before seen in the world. Doctors, teachers, engineers, researchers, and Nobel Prize winners who had never considered college an option rewrote the American Dream thanks to this most visionary legislation. “Vivid . . . Deeply moving, alive with the thrill of people from modest backgrounds discovering that the opportunities available to them were far greater than anything they had dreamed of.” —Los Angeles Times “Poignant . . . The human dramas scattered throughout the narrative are irresistible.” —The Denver Post “Fascinating . . . The book’s statistics are eye-opening, but it’s the numerous personal vignettes that bring this account to life. . . . At its best, these passages are reminiscent of Studs Terkel’s Depression-era and World War II oral histories.” —The Plain Dealer

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : PURD:32754078106733

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GI Bill Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Veterans
ISBN : PURD:32754077095697

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The Montgomery GI Bill--Selected Reserve by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cassandria Dortch
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508699607

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The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Post-9/11 GI Bill) by Cassandria Dortch Pdf

The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (Post-9/11 GI Bill)-enacted as Title V of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (P.L. 110-252) on June 30, 2008-is the newest GI Bill and went into effect on August 1, 2009. There were four main drivers for the Post-9/11 GI Bill: (1) providing parity of benefits for reservists and members of the regular Armed Forces, (2) ensuring comprehensive educational benefits, (3) meeting military recruiting goals, and (4) improving military retention through transferability of benefits. By FY2010, the program had the largest numbers of participants and the highest total obligations compared to the other GI Bills.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Educational assistance
ISBN : IND:30000135107955

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The Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Boulton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814724873

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Failing Our Veterans by Mark Boulton Pdf

Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done for veterans of both World War II and Korea. But the Vietnam generation soon discovered that their G.I. Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they had earned. Mark Boulton’s groundbreaking study provides the first analysis of the legislative debates surrounding the education benefits offered under the Vietnam-era G.I. Bills. Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars. Failing Our Veterans should be essential reading to scholars of the Vietnam War, political history, or of social policy. Contemporary lawmakers should heed its historical lessons on how we ought to treat our returning veterans. Indeed, veterans wishing to fully understand their own homecoming experience will find great interest in the book’s conclusions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050441935

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Modernizing the GI Bill by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Ortiz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814762684

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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill by Stephen R. Ortiz Pdf

Reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : IND:30000091710230

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How about Your Education? by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Milton Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051312414

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The GI Bill by Milton Greenberg Pdf

Greenberg (emeritus, government, American Univ.) served in World War II and earned his academic degrees under the G.I. Bill of Rights. He describes the history of the legislation (officially entitled The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944) and discusses the importance, success, and lasting legacy of the bill. Its major benefits are discussed in detail: financial support while unemployed, assistance for educational programs ranging from specific job training to higher education, and loans for home, business, and farm ownership. Although much of this information is covered in Michael J. Bennett's When Dreams Come True: The G.I. Bill and the Making of Modern America, Greenberg's inclusion of many photographs and personal stories of U.S. servicemen and -women creates a more memorable and compelling account. This book is recommended for public and academic collections.