On the battlefield of memory : the First World War and American remembrance, 1919-1941 / Steven Trout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trout, Steven, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

Memory--Social aspects--United States.

Memory.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920's and 1930's interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled, more a matter of competing sets of collective memories-each set with its own spokespeople- than a unified body of myth. The members of the American Legion remembered the war as a time of assimilation and national harmony. However, African Americans and radicalized whites recalled a very different war. And so did many of the nation's writers, filmmakers, and painters.

Contents:

Introduction : memory, history, and America's First World War

Custodians of memory : the American legion and interwar culture

Soldiers well-known and unknown : monuments to the American doughboy, 1920-1941

Painters of memory : Harvey Dunn, Horace Pippin, and John Steuart Curry

Memory's end? : Quentin Roosevelt, World War II, and America's last doughboy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8349-2

OCLC:

760066697