Introduction: Uncle Sam Wants You

Capozzola, Christopher

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“…When white tenants violently attacked black tenants, and justified the attack with an accusation of black sexual violence, they, too, invoked the language of national security and patriotic duty to demand government assistance. 88 But the war was soon to come to an end. On November 11, 1918, the allied powers signed an armistice with Germany and lawmakers quickly moved to dismantle wartime agencies.…”

Section: "Under the War Powers We May Do A Great Many Things"mentioning

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The Home Front: World War I, Tenant Activism, and Housing Policy Before the New Deal

Silber

2022

Journal of Urban History

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During World War I, mass migration to military manufacturing centers and the suspension of most private construction placed immense pressure on urban rental housing markets. Seeking to address the wartime housing “emergency,” Congress established the nation’s first public housing programs and federal agents based in major cities implemented informal policies to control rents. After the war, national policy shifted away from assisting struggling tenants to promoting homeownership for those who could afford it. However, empowered by the assistance they had received during the war, Philadelphia tenants continued to insist on the need for government action to curtail evictions and rising rents. Though divided by race, ethnicity, income, and political affiliation, struggling tenants shared the belief that the city’s housing problems required collective solutions.

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The Home Front: World War I, Tenant Activism, and Housing Policy Before the New Deal

Silber

2022

Journal of Urban History

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“…Still, it was unclear whether Neilson believed that Radcliffe's "elite women" would work as "a pleasant and diversionary hobby" or an "inclusive form of voluntarism." 63 Ensuing commencement festivities encouraged alumnae to enact Neilson's vision. Following graduation, Radcliffe's Alumnae Association, which had connected expats to college events since 1887, and its Union, which had guided student government since 1905, met jointly to consider what war-related actions they might encourage.…”

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A War Generation?: The Radcliffe College Community in the Great War Era, 1914–1926

McGuire

2020

J. gilded age prog. era

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AbstractOver 2,000 Radcliffe College students, administrators, and alumnae irregularly involved themselves in World War I (WWI) activism. While most matriculating and matriculated Radcliffe members collectively contributed to war work, their individual records illuminate peculiar paradoxes that challenge historical concepts of America's WWI culture. Radcliffe females generally assumed war tasks untethered to their professional experiences and political aspirations. Many undergraduates and graduates contended that they chose, circumscribed and concluded war-connected work at their discretion—not Radcliffe's and/or America's. Moreover, domestic efforts designed to awaken Americans' war patriotism and activity encountered a decidedly dormant and indulgent Cambridge college compound. Not until fall 1918—over a year into U.S. belligerency—did Radcliffe's campus completely mobilize for ‘selfless' war service. Radcliffe's WWI-related chronicles—including its members’ post-hostilities humanitarian activity—suggest that “coercive voluntarism” and “complete citizenship” were not ubiquitous forces in WWI America.

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“…Posters and lecturers promoted "wheatless" and "meatless" days of the week, while special cookbooks explained how to use substitute goods for items that the armies needed. 36 To whip up support for the war effort, squadrons of men and women took to the lecture circuit to explain why the U.S. was fighting this war, what was needed to maintain the nation, and what the peace would look like if citizens would only do their part. Americans did do their part, volunteering for overseas service and work at home.…”

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The Great War and the Making of a Modern World

Proctor¹

2018

Utah Historical Quarterly

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Introduction: Uncle Sam Wants You

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The Home Front: World War I, Tenant Activism, and Housing Policy Before the New Deal

The Home Front: World War I, Tenant Activism, and Housing Policy Before the New Deal

A War Generation?: The Radcliffe College Community in the Great War Era, 1914–1926

The Great War and the Making of a Modern World

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