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Meulen, Jacob Vander, Kenneth Paul O'Brien, and Lynn Hudson Parsons. "The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society." Journal of American History 83, no. 2 (September 1996): 673. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2945056.

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ROBERTSON, MARTA. "Ballad for Incarcerated Americans: Second Generation Japanese American Musicking in World War II Camps." Journal of the Society for American Music 11, no. 3 (August 2017): 284–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196317000220.

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AbstractDuring World War II, the United States government imprisoned approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens, half of whom were children. Through ethnographic interviews I explore how fragile youthful memories, trauma, and the soundscape of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Incarceration Camps shaped the artistic trajectories of three such former “enemy alien” youth: two pianists and a koto player. Counterintuitively, Japanese traditional arts flourished in the hostile environment of dislocation through the high number ofnisei(second generation) participants, who later contributed to increasing transculturalism in American music following resettlement out of camp. Synthesizing Japanese and Euro-American classical music, white American popular music, and African American jazz, manyniseiparadoxically asserted their dual cultural commitment to both traditional Japanese and home front patriotic American principles. A performance of Earl Robinson and John Latouche's patriotic cantata,Ballad for Americans(1939), by the high school choir at Manzanar Incarceration Camp demonstrates the hybridity of these Japanese American cultural practices. Marked by Popular Front ideals,Ballad for Americansallowedniseito construct identities through a complicated mixture of ethnic pride, chauvinistic white Americanism allied with Bing Crosby's recordings of theBallad, and affiliation with black racial struggle through Paul Robeson's iconicBalladperformances.

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Palladino, G. "Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II." Journal of American History 94, no. 1 (June 1, 2007): 328–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25094907.

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Freeman, J. B. "Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 5, no. 2 (June 1, 2008): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-089.

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Leff, Mark H. "The Politics of Sacrifice on the American Home Front in World War II." Journal of American History 77, no. 4 (March 1991): 1296. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2078263.

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Honey, Maureen. "Maternal Welders: Women's Sexuality and Propaganda on the Home Front During World War II." Prospects 22 (October 1997): 479–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036123330000020x.

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The cover of the may 29, 1943, Saturday Evening Post depicts our most famous image of Rosie the Riveter, a name that came to symbolize women's crossover into male-dominated industrial work during World War II (Figure 1). Norman Rockwell positioned his Rosie resting during her lunch break, calmly eating a bologna sandwich while stomping on a copy of Mein Kampf with author's name, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi swastika visible under the title. It was an image meant to reassure the American public that women would get the job done on America's home front and help defeat the Axis powers. It is also an image worth examining today for it captures some of the contradictions that continue to vex us concerning the war's multifaceted representations of women and work, portrayals that contained and excluded even as they widened public perceptions of what women could do. For one thing, Rockwell's Rosie is notably “unfeminine” in that her muscular arms are unadorned with jewelry, she wears a double-banded leather watch, she has on comfortable loafers to match her denim overalls, and her ruddy complexion seems the product of exertion, not makeup. Furthermore, she is indifferent to our gaze; rather her proud stare announces absorption in a more compelling subject, symbolized by the American flag that forms the backdrop for her portrait.

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Gainty, C. "Jordynn Jack. Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II." Enterprise and Society 11, no. 4 (March 31, 2010): 857–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/khq016.

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Stephens, Wendy. "Young Voices from the Field and Home Front: World War II as Depicted in Contemporary Children’s Literature." Children and Libraries 15, no. 3 (September 28, 2017): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.3.28.

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Promoting support for Allied Forces was a central theme of contemporary children’s literature in the eve of and during World War II; the body of work captures a surprisingly complex and conflicted view of armed conflict and nationhood.Amid the expected imperatives that American children scavenge scrap metal for war bonds and cozy stories of English children evacuated to safety in North America, there is nostalgia for pastoral Russia and an unabashed celebration of the Soviet collective effort. In one of the most charged depictions, a pair of dachshunds forced to wear Nazi uniforms outwit their master. An Austrian refugee, the creation of a refugee writer, pointedly informs a naïve French peasant boy: “There are a great many Germans who hated the Nazis, didn’t you know that?”1 before revealing his father was a prisoner at Dachau.

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Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Judy Barrett Litoff, and David C. Smith. "Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front." Journal of American History 79, no. 2 (September 1992): 718. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080164.

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Sides, Josh. "Battle on the Home Front: African American Shipyard Workers in World War II Los Angeles." California History 75, no. 3 (1996): 250–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25177597.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American home front in World War II"

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Escobedo, Elizabeth Rachel. "Mexican American home front : the politics of gender, culture, and community in World War II Los Angeles /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10491.

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Marin, Christine. "Mexican Americans on the Home Front: Community Organizations in Arizona During World War II." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624849.

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Fluker, Katherine M. "Creating a Canteen Worth Fighting For: Morale Service and the Stage Door Canteen in World War II." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1291943008.

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Carter, Andrea Kaye. "Bushnell General Military Hospital And The Community of Brigham City, Utah During World War II." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/162.

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Bushnell General Military Hospital was an Army World War II hospital in Brigham City, Utah from August 1942 to June 1946. It specialized in treating amputations, maxillofacial surgery, neuropsychiatric conditions, and tropical diseases. It was also one of the first hospitals to experimentally use penicillin. Bushnell was a regional facility for wounded solders from the Mountain States that provided quality medical care to patients. The community of Brigham City and the citizens of other Northern Utah communities were an integral part of the success of Bushnell. Citizens donated time, supplies, and money to support the facility and to assist in the care and rehabilitation of injured GIs. Celebrities also visited Bushnell to promote morale, and some disabled Americans assisted injured patients. The hospital staff, along with Northern Utahns, played an important role in helping to rehabilitate and reintroduce injured soldiers into society. Brigham City was also effected by Bushnell Hospital. One major problem was a shortage of housing in Brigham City, which led citizens to rent to family members of patients in private homes. Another was infrastructure needed to support the hospital. However, the benefits mostly outweighed the problems. The city and surrounding communities benefited from the job growth at Bushnell and in Brigham. Downtown businesses received additional revenue from patrons. Because the hospital came to Brigham City, some citizens also met Japanese Americans and German and Italian POWs in addition to those connected to Bushnell. This led Brigham citizens to develop friendships with people they might have not met otherwise. When the war ended, the subsequent closure of Bushnell General Military Hospital brought these benefits to an end, and Brigham City and other Northern Utahn communities hastened to find a new occupant for the hospital facility to ensure jobs. In 1950, it became the Intermountain Indian School. The school closed in 1984, and now businesses and homes occupy the site.

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Head, Christopher Michael. "The Armor of Democracy: Volunteerism on the Home Front in World War II California." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2009. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/62.

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This paper is an in-depth study on the role of Home Front Volunteerism in California during World War II. It argues that Volunteerism was integral to America’s eventual victory. This paper fills a gap in historical writings on World War II and shows that Volunteerism is a topic worthy of study. Volunteerism played a major role in California. It helped to keep morale high even when the war was progressing poorly. Volunteerism also helped to create new communities out of those shattered by the upheaval of the Great Depression. It provided a patriotic outlet for Americans desperate to aid the war effort. Minority groups took part in volunteer activities in order to show that they too were Americans and in doing so raised their status in society. Throughout the war, volunteers collected scrap metal which was melted down into weaponry. “Radishy victory gardens” sprung up throughout California. The Red Cross experienced an unprecedented surge in volunteerism and new methods in preservation and transportation of donated blood saved thousands of lives. The USO, created during the war, provided entertainment to soldiers both on the home front and overseas. Celebrities and civilians volunteered with the USO. This paper discusses many other ways in which Californian’s volunteered. Each volunteer activity provided an outlet for Americans desperate to aid the war effort in any way that they could.

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McPartland, Caitlin Elizabeth. "The role of Rosie : propaganda and female home-front intervention during World War Two /." Full-text of dissertation on the Internet (703 KB), 2009. http://www.lib.jmu.edu/general/etd/2009/Honors/McPartland_Caitlin/mcpartce_honors_11-11-2009.pdf.

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Schnoor, Andrea. "Redefining masculinity : the image of civilian men in American home front documentaries, 1942-1945." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133730.

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Redefining Masculinity presents an analysis of the American government's portrayal of civilian men in World War II documentary films. The majority of the films, which serve as a primary source for this study, were created by the Office of War Information (OWI) as a means of stimulating home front support for the war. The government's portrayal of civilian men advocated a significant modification of gender roles. According to the OWI, men understood the politics of war, were aware of the national context of sacrifices, and were able to carry the government's message into American households and defense plants. As a result of their war consciousness, civilian men in government documentary films partially claimed the traditional domestic realm of women and redefined American gender roles as interactive and overlapping. The intersecting gender spheres in OWI films exemplify that men experienced manhood not in isolation from women. This propagandized image of civilian men during the Second World War supports the claims of scholars who criticize the ideology of "separate spheres" to describe socially constructed domains of the male and female gender. In contrast, the thesis findings show that the social, political, and economic definitions of male and female roles can be altered, extended, or adjusted when economically, politically, and culturally expedient.
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D'Antoni, John G. "The Home Front: The Experience of Soldiers and Civilians in the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940 and 1941." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2452.

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In the years before and during World War II, the United States Army conducted a series of military maneuvers in north-central Louisiana. The two biggest maneuvers occurred in May 1940 and September 1941. The Louisiana Maneuvers are credited with helping to prepare the U.S. armed forces for World War II. Previous studies of the 1940 and 1941 maneuvers have focused on the day-to-day activities during the maneuvers or the generals behind the maneuvers. This study will focus on the impacts of the maneuvers on the soldiers themselves and on the citizens of north-central Louisiana who lived in the maneuver area. This study will also focus on how the Louisiana state government worked with the U.S. army to get the maneuvers.

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Garrett, Jennifer Lane Scott. "Finally home the University of Florida campus as a microcosm of American post World War II residential design /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010466.

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Cooper, Caryl Ann. "To preserve and serve : African-Americans on the home front, 1941-1945, the office of civilian defense and the Black press /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9902375.

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Books on the topic "American home front in World War II"

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Glynn, Gary. Montana's home front during World War II. 2nd ed. Missoula, Mont: Big Elk Books, 2011.

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Glynn, Gary. Montana's home front during World War II. Missoula, Mont: Pictorial Histories, 1994.

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Jeffries, John W. Wartime America: The World War II home front. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1996.

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Winkler, Allan M. Home front U.S.A.: America during World War II. 3rd ed. Wheeling, Ill: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2012.

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Winkler, Allan M. Home front U.S.A.: America during World War II. 2nd ed. Wheeling, Ill: Harlan Davidson, 2000.

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Winkler, Allan M. Home front U.S.A.: America during World War II. Arlington Heights, Ill: H. Davidson, 1986.

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The home front during World War II in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2003.

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Enyeart, Stacy. America's home front heroes: An oral history of World War II. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.

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Whitman, Sylvia. V is for victory: The American home front during World War II. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1993.

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V is for victory: The American home front during World War II. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "American home front in World War II"

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Fuller, John F. "World War II The Home Front." In Thor’s Legions, 35–54. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-14-0_4.

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Lassner, Phyllis. "No Place Like Home: The British Home Front." In British Women Writers of World War II, 127–66. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230503786_5.

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Lassner, Phyllis. "Fictions of the European Home Front: Keeping Faith with the Conquered." In British Women Writers of World War II, 191–215. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230503786_7.

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Greco, Albert N. "Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Domestic Policies, Executive Orders, and the Home Front During World War II." In The Marketing of World War II in the US, 1939-1946, 13–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39519-3_2.

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Baqué, Zachary. "“So Long as They Are Maintaining a Bona Fide Family Relationship in the Home”: Women in World War II American Film Propaganda." In New Perspectives on the War Film, 159–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23096-8_8.

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Tuttle, William M. "America's home front children in World War II." In Children in Time and Place, 27–46. Cambridge University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558269.004.

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"World War II: Women on the Home Front." In The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America, 102–3. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203949610-52.

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Kanter, Deborah E. "Red, White, and Blue and Mexican." In Chicago Católico, 57–88. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042973.003.0004.

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In the 1940s a new Mexican American generation emerged. The children of immigrants grew up as Chicagoans, attending ethnically diverse schools and living in mixed neighborhoods. The parish anchored the community, and children grew up with a positive grounding in Mexican and US Catholic traditions. This chapter explores how they experienced World War II on the home front and as soldiers stationed all over the world. The parish newspaper vividly illustrates Chicago Mexican Americans’ talents and passions, especially in the realms of music, movies, and parish sports teams for women and men. A new parish gymnasium became the center of a lively social scene. These young people lived at ease with their hybrid identity: Mexican, American, and Catholic.

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Guglielmo, Thomas A. "Brothers in Arms?" In Divisions, 344–69. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195342659.003.0010.

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Chapter 9 looks at what happened to the US military’s white-nonwhite lines as American troops moved overseas during World War II. Nonblack minorities faced both bright and blurry white-nonwhite lines when deployed abroad. At times, the military remained determined to uphold distinctions between whites, on the one hand, and Asian Americans, Latin Americans, and Native Americans, on the other. This determination, evident in everything from military justice proceedings to promotion patterns, stemmed primarily from long-standing civilian investments in these distinctions and in response to the vicious race war in the Pacific with Japan. At the same time, overseas service also witnessed the continued blurring of white-nonwhite lines—the transformation of “Mexicans,” “Puerto Ricans,” “Indians,” “Filipinos,” “Chinese,” and even “Japanese” into whites’ buddies and brothers, comrades and fellow Americans, deepening a process that had begun on the home front. While this overseas blurring often emanated from day-to-day battlefield bonding, it was America’s military leaders and commanders who largely made it possible. In doing so, they narrowed the white-nonwhite divide, but also deepened the black-white one in the process.

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Reid, Jack. "It’s Easy for a Soldier Boy to Catch Rides." In Roadside Americans, 45–72. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655000.003.0003.

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This chapter explores how several factors during World War II made hitchhiking widely accepted and commonly practiced on the home front. Gasoline and tire rationing, increased volunteerism during the war effort, and the fact that most hitchhikers were now servicemen in uniform instead of unemployed transients led many Americans to look more favourably upon the practice. Even critics of hitchhiking during the Depression years came to see offering soldiers lifts to and from their bases—as well as civilians heading to work—as a patriotic duty. As a result, the media, government regulators, and law-enforcement officials typically looked past periodic acts of violence associated with ride solicitation—focusing instead on ideas of duty and sacrifice in the name of the war effort.

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