Interchange: World War I

Capozzola, Christopher; Huebner, Andrew J.; Irwin, Julia F.; Keene, Jennifer D.; Kennedy, Ross A.; Neiberg, Michael S.; Ortiz, Stephen R.; Williams, Chad; Winter, Jay

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“…7 In this article, I argue that by focusing on the Foundation officers' profiles and the beginnings of their more concerted engagements during World War I, a dual perspective can be achieved-primarily into private, progressive America's response to total war both during the periods of preparedness and belligerency, and more specifically into the mindset and internal driving forces of the Rockefeller philanthropists. 8 Reflecting on the actions of Foundation agents in those years not only challenges the idea of American neutrality during the period of preparedness, but also provides insight into their direct philanthropic involvement in the war scene. From the outbreak of the war in 1914 until the United States' entry into war in 1917, these philanthropists consciously mobilized themselves to the point of pleading for and entering into direct commitments in the European war zone.…”

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The Birth of Transnational U.S. Philanthropy From the Spirit of War: Rockefeller Philanthropists in World War I

Rausch

2018

J. gilded age prog. era

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World War I significantly impacted U.S. society and politics long before the United States officially entered into the war's frontlines in 1917. Even as historians have begun to pay closer attention to this process, they have until now largely failed to notice a particular group of colorful and highly emblematic public elite actors: charitable foundation philanthropists. With the soon-to-be globally active Rockefeller Foundation a cohort of ambitious U.S. progressives and social engineers—later ardent supporters of global science funding during the interwar years and beyond—utilized their war experiences to shape the wartime philanthropic agenda. This article focuses on the Foundation officers’ profiles and the beginnings of their more concerted engagements during World War I in order to show how, in their mindsets and tactics, Rockefeller philanthropists disregarded American neutrality. From the outbreak of the war in 1914, they mobilized themselves to the point of pleading for and entering into direct commitments at home and abroad, especially in the European war zone. With the official entry of the United States into war in early April 1917, Rockefeller officials and collaborators became openly “combat” philanthropists, resolutely assisting the moral stabilization efforts of the U.S. military and conducting support campaigns to bolster, most notably, the American alliance with France. The incubation and infancy period of Rockefeller philanthropy as a subsequently ubiquitous phenomenon of the American twentieth century is inseparable from the impact of the Great War.

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The Birth of Transnational U.S. Philanthropy From the Spirit of War: Rockefeller Philanthropists in World War I

Rausch

2018

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“…This case study applies a life course perspective to examining the effects of war exposure on a longneglected Great War subpopulation: rural U.S. soldiers. The paucity of work on World War I in the United States has often been shrugged off as arising from the distance of the country's homes from and its soldiers' belated arrival to the Western front (Capozzola et al 2015), yet these very factors were formative of the uniqueness of Americans' experiences. During the Great War, the persistent civilian-military binary was mapped onto a particular imaginary of "home" versus "front": Wartime propaganda relied on perceived threat to the home-front boundary to galvanize efforts to maintain it (James 2009); a soldier's traversal of this boundary was essential to his claims to authentic war experience (Cronier 2004;Wilson 2012).…”

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“How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?” World War I Overseas Military Service and Rural Americans’ Postwar Occupational Mobility

Cunningham

2021

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…3 The following essay heeds a recent call by leading U.S. historians of World War I for counterfactual reflection on questions pertaining to American involvement. 4 One hundred years after Woodrow Wilson led Americans into the Great War, I propose to take a look at American history without the country becoming a belligerent in the spring of 1917. First, I will argue that counterfactual analysis is a useful and indeed indispensable methodological tool of historians.…”

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“He Kept Us Out of War!” a Counterfactual Look at American History Without the First World War

Berg

2017

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One hundred years after President Woodrow Wilson led Americans into the Great War, this essay ponders various counterfactual scenarios based on the assumption that the United States had not become a belligerent power in 1917. The methodological introduction makes a case for counterfactual analysis as a useful and indeed indispensable tool of historians. The second part demonstrates that contemporaries, including Wilson himself, did not consider American entry into the war a foregone conclusion. The third section looks at the possible consequences of continued American neutrality on the international position of the United States, while the fourth part focuses on the question which major domestic developments would have been unlikely had America remained neutral. Had the United States stayed out of the Great War, America's international role in the postwar world would not been very different from what it actually was in the 1920s, but the nation would have been spared the spasms of war hysteria that altered domestic politics.

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Interchange: World War I

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The Birth of Transnational U.S. Philanthropy From the Spirit of War: Rockefeller Philanthropists in World War I

The Birth of Transnational U.S. Philanthropy From the Spirit of War: Rockefeller Philanthropists in World War I

“How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?” World War I Overseas Military Service and Rural Americans’ Postwar Occupational Mobility

“He Kept Us Out of War!” a Counterfactual Look at American History Without the First World War

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