World War I.

In 1918, Imogen Cunningham produced nine negatives of a nude male, her husband Roi Partridge, exploring the Dipsea Trail near Mill Valley, California. This thesis examines the often overlooked extant prints from the photographic series Roi on the Dipsea Trail in relation to the …

Censorship has always been viewed by the American military as an essential weapon of warfare. The amounts, and types, of censorship deployed have varied from conflict to conflict. Censorship would reach a peak during America’s involvement in the First World War. The American mil…

With American entry into World War I, Utah became part of the Homefront. Using the opportunity afforded by mobilization the state embraced a new system of Americanization. This ardent patriotism spread through social, economic, and especially religious means to rural communities…

This thesis analyzes David Jones’s In Parenthesis to demonstrate the failed notion of chivalry, courtesy, and knighthood in modernity during and after the war. Jones’s semi-autobiographical prose poem recounting his experiences of WWI was published in 1937, nineteen years after …

The United States entered World War I without a policy governing the burial of its overseas dead. Armed only with institutional knowledge from the Spanish-American War twenty years prior, the Army struggled to create a policy amidst social turmoil in the United States and politi…

During the Great War, the horse was essential to military efficiency. Horses hauled artillery guns, transported vital supplies and ammunition, and carried men into battle. The military horse was, in fact, a weapon. Many thousands of horses were purchased and supplied to the Brit…

This dissertation investigates the state of North Carolina in the years before American intervention in the Great War by focusing on the actions, speeches, and writings of House Majority Leader Claude Kitchin. Despite his importance to such a pivotal decade in American history, …

In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played in the American moral and political order, but by the turn …

Prvi svetski rat se smatra prelomnim događajem XX veka i periodom koji je označio kraj jedne faze moderne svetske istorije i najavio početak naredne. Kada se na globalnom planu analizira geopolitička, ekonomska, društvena i umetnička situacija pre i nakon završetka sukoba, jasno…

This dissertation examines the women’s peace movement from 1914 through 1917. I trace the actions of three American actors within the peace movement: Jane Addams, Emily Green Balch, and Fannie Fern Andrews. Though all three women join the movement around the same time they follo…

The proximity and simultaneity of World War I and Prohibition pose questions of a shared and connected relationship. The current historiography falls short to connect these two seminal events and their impact on German-American communities. This study expands the existing litera…

Shepherds of The Fatherland examines the establishment of the German Shepherd Dog along national undercurrents. In addition to its establishment in the late 19th century, a close look into the life of Max Von Stephanitz (1864-1936) the breeds’ founder provides historians a look …

In September 1917, Fort Smith telephone operators formed a local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Soon after, company leaders dismissed two of the women who were instrumental in the formation of the union. After many attempts to meet and negotiate with the…

After almost a century of struggle, women achieved their goal of seeing a national amendment added to the Constitution guaranteeing suffrage without the bias of gender. The fight for women’s rights evolved throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, shifting from abolitio…

This thesis aims to tell the story of James Austin Bowman as he navigated the Western Front during World War I. The thesis utilizes two main types of historical documents: the personal diary and the letters to his wife. During his time on the Western Front, Bowman wrote in a per…

American officials found themselves in a unique position when the United States declared war in 1917. For over two years the United States remained neutral in World War I but with the declaration of war, government officials and publishers now had to sell the idea of war to a sk…

This thesis is concerned with British policy in relation to General Edmund

During the Great War many European armies (most notably the Russian) collapsed due to major disciplinary problems. However, the British Expeditionary Force avoided these problems up until the Armistice of November 1918. This thesis examines how the discipline and morale of the R…

This dissertation examines in detail, the organisation, training and operations of the 27th and 30th American Divisions during the period of Summer 1917 to the announcement of an armistice in November 1918. Particular emphasis is placed on the two divisions after they were attac…