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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"citizen soldiers"”.
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Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute
The founders and officers of the Virginia Military Institute, one of the few American engineering schools in the antebellum period, embedded a particular engineering culture into the curriculum and discipline of the school. This occurred, in some cases, as a consequence of struggles by the elite of …
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"What alternative punishment is there?": Military Executions During World War I
… on the army as it adjusted to the absorption of 'citizen soldiers' and conscripts as well as disappointment on the battlefield. Differences between Regular, Territorial and 'New Army' formations are assessed. So too is the impact of the big offensives such as the Battle of the Somme in 1916. …
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Valorizing theCitizen Soldier: Veteran Testimony, Public Display, and the Creation of the National D-Day Museum
… and valorized the personal testimony of soldiers through public display. In addition, this study evaluates a growing trend in the museum's interpretation: the simulation of soldiers' experiences. Shifting away from a focus on interpretive displays of the artifacts and testimonies of …
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Fighting for liberty in an unequal society: African American military service in the American Revolution and the path towards citizenship
… importance was given to the service of black soldiers, and more than 5,000 black men served in the Continental Army alone. Those that took up arms for the United States or Britain were elevated closer to citizenship than black soldiers in any previous conflict. In this thesis, I ask why …
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Disease, Disuse, and Disappointment: The Volunteer Experience and the Modernization of the American National Guard, 1898-1902
… and helped define the service experiences of citizen soldiers and veterans in future wars. Foregrounding the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the volunteers provides a rich source base from which to tell the story of how the volunteers of 1898 helped spark the modernization of the American …
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All Stalin's men? Soldierly masculinities in the Soviet war effort, 1938-1945
… but interconnected ways Soviet leaders and citizen-soldiers interpreted the Soviet war effort as a masculine endeavor. At the front, the entry of women into the ranks of combatants challenged not only men’s preeminence, but also official and popular narratives of a masculine ethic of …
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The evolution and development of the Australian Light Horse, 1860-1945
… rifleman. Influenced by social ideas about citizen soldier horsemen and a senior officer with firm views, this model continued to be used by the new Light Horse until well into the First World War. During that war it was gradually discovered that this military model had its limitations and …