Kansas and Kansans in World War I: Service at Home and Abroad - Couverture rigide

Watson, Blake Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0700637400 ISBN 13 : 9780700637409

Editeur : University Press of Kansas, 2024

Synopsis

When president Woodrow Wilson spoke in Topeka on February 2, 1916, in favor of a stronger military, he faced skepticism and outright opposition from many Kansas residents—including Governor Arthur Capper and University of Kansas chancellor Frank Strong. But when war against Germany was declared two months later, Kansans joined forces to lend support in money and manpower.

In Kansas and Kansans in World War I, Blake Watson helps readers understand how World War I affected Kansas and its residents, and how Kansans in turn had an impact on the outcome of the Great War. Through thorough and extensive use of letters, newspapers, and other documents, Watson brings individual soldiers’ service to life, using their own words to describe their attitudes and experiences. Watson also looks at Kansans’ service and support on the home front, chronicling Kansans’ participation in initiatives such as Liberty Loan bonds, newspapers’ publication of military service honor rolls and soldiers’ letters from abroad, and the xenophobia and hysteria that confronted Mennonites—who were pacifists—and German Americans.

Finally, Watson describes postwar efforts to honor Kansas veterans and fallen soldiers with commemorations and memorials, including Haskell University’s Memorial Arch, the University of Kansas’s Memorial Stadium and Memorial Union, and Kansas State University’s Memorial Stadium.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Blake A. Watson, a former attorney with the US Justice Department, is Samuel A. McCray Chair in Law, University of Dayton School of Law. He is the author of Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights. One of the soldiers featured in the book, Ralph Nichols of Oskaloosa, is Watson’s great-uncle. Nichols’s brothers Arvil and Charles also served. Watson’s relatives have lived in twenty counties in Kansas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Kansas
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0700637400
• ISBN 13: 9780700637409
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible