Army at Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army at Home write by Judith Giesberg. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Army at Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own. Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America's Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.
The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front
The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front write by Walter Gable. This book was released on 2012-11-06. The Seneca Army Depot: Fighting Wars from the New York Home Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States began to prepare to enter World War II. When the army decided to build a depot in Seneca County in 1941, dozens of families were given only days to vacate the homes they loved and land they had farmed for generations. The depot provided vital jobs for residents, but it also continued to cause controversy even after it was established--all while providing critical support for the army through the Persian Gulf War. Since the base closed in 2000, the community has grappled with what to do with the property, including protecting the area population of white deer. Join local historians Carolyn Zogg and Walter Gable as they tell the story of the Seneca Army Depot and the lives it has affected.
Bringing the War Home
Bringing the War Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bringing the War Home write by Jeremy Peter Varon. This book was released on 2004-04-30. Bringing the War Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. Varon conveys the intense passions of the era--the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon's compelling interpretation of the logic and limits of dissent in democratic societies provides striking insights into the role of militancy in contemporary protest movements and has wide implications for the United States' current "war on terrorism." Varon explores Weatherman and RAF's strong similarities and the reasons why radicals in different settings developed a shared set of values, languages, and strategies. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the brutal and escalating nature of the West German conflict in the 60s and 70s, as well as the reasons why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of why violence develops within social movements, how states can respond to radical dissent and forms of terror, how the rational and irrational can combine in political movements, and finally how moral outrage and militancy can play both constructive and destructive roles in efforts at social change.
U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook
U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook write by United States. Dept. of the Army. This book was released on 2003. U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A key guide to complete fitness for both military and civilian use.
Army Wives
Army Wives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army Wives write by Tanya Biank. This book was released on 2007-05-29. Army Wives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells the story of four typical Army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and wives. This is a true story about what happened when real life collided with army convention. Army Wives is a groundbreaking narrative that takes the reader beyond the Army's gates, taking a close look at the other woman—the Army itself—and how its traditions, rules and war-time realities deeply impact marriage and home life.
