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Summary:

"Investigates the ground-breaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Carry On: The Women's Overseas Service League and Veteranist Commemorations
• 2. Service Inscribed in Stone: Compromise at the American Red Cross's Memorial Building to the Women of the World War
• 3. Commemoration through Rehabilitation: The World War Reconstruction Aides Association
• 4. "Let Us Take Up the Torch Individually and Collectively": The American War Mothers and Veteranist Commemorations
• 5. "A Great Living and Moving Monument": The Gold Star Pilgrimages as Veteranist Memorials.

Author/Creator:

Finkelstein, Allison S., 1986- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Forgotten veterans, invisible memorials: how American women commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 [by Finkelstein, A.S.]

Related Series:

War, memory, and culture

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918 — Women — United States

World War, 1914-1918 — Veterans — United States

World War, 1914-1918 — Anniversaries, etc.

Memorialization — United States — History — 20th century

Patriotic societies — United States — History — 20th century

Voluntarism — United States — History — 20th century

Women — Societies and clubs

Collective memory — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

D639.W7 F46 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780817393687 (electronic bk.)
0817393684 (electronic bk.)
9780817321017 [Invalid]
0817321012 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1262192970

Other Control Numbers:

EBC28667836 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302353274