Overview

This collection, emerging from recent seminars at the Old State House Museum, brings together some of the state’s leading historians to explore the perspectives of Arkansans during World War I. Collectively, these essays provide a thoughtful look into the many ways the Great War affected and continues to affect Arkansas.

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Author:   Mark K. Christ
Publisher:   University of Arkansas Press
Imprint:   University of Arkansas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.423kg
ISBN:  

9781682261262

ISBN 10:   1682261263
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Shawn Fisher - Arkansas and the Great War: Southern Soldiers Fight for a National Victory Elizabeth Griffin Hill - Arkansas's Women and the Great War Carl G. Drexler - Gearing Up Over Here for 'Over There:' Manufacturing in Arkansas during World War I Cherisse Jones-Branch - 'Fighting, Protesting, and Organizing:' African Americans in World War I Arkansas Raymond D. Screws - 'To Carry Forward the Training Program:' Camp Pike in the Great War and the Legacy of the Post Brian K. Mitchell - Soldiers and Veterans at the Elaine Race Massacre Thomas A. DeBlack - Epidemic!: The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Its Legacy for Arkansas Jeannie M. Whayne - World War I and Woman's Suffrage in Arkansas Roger Pauly - Paris to Pearl in Print: Arkansas's Experience of the March from the Armistice to the Second World War through the Newspaper Media

Reviews

This book is full of interesting essays on the impact of World War I on Arkansas. Editor Mark Christ has assembled a cadre of first-rate historians who address a whole range of topics - from the roles of black Arkansans, to the great flu epidemic, to the roles played by women in the Great War. - Tom Dillard, Arkansas history columnist and former president of the Arkansas Historical Association

Author Information

Mark K. Christ is a program director at the Central Arkansas Library System who has worked in historic preservation in Arkansas for nearly three decades. He is the editor of Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas and coeditor of I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First-Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas.

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