Author: Southern Methodist UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The Report of the Visiting Team, April 6-8, 1959
Author: Southern Methodist UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Mission 66 Visitor Centers
Author: Sarah AllabackPublisher: National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Describes 6 national park visitor centers built from 1956-1966 during the National Park Service's Mission 66 park development program. Includes a brief history of the Mission 66 program.
Report of the Board of Trustees
Author: University of IllinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2034
Book Description
Public Health Reports
Author: Proceedings of the Meeting
Author: Southern Association of Colleges and SchoolsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Benefit Series Service
Author: United States. Bureau of Employment SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployment insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Impressions of Indian River
Author: Holly Smith-MiddletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Combined Statement of Receipts, Expenditures and Balances of the United States Government
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of AccountsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Girls Next Door
Author: Kara Dixon VuicPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort to boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women and famous entertainers overseas. Kara Dixon Vuic builds her narrative around the young women from across the United States, many of whom had never traveled far from home, who volunteered to serve in one of the nation’s most brutal work environments. From the “Lassies” in France and mini-skirted coeds in Vietnam to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, Vuic provides a fascinating glimpse into wartime gender roles and the tensions that continue to complicate American women’s involvement in the military arena. The recreation-program volunteers heightened the passions of troops but also domesticated everyday life on the bases. Their presence mobilized support for the war back home, while exporting American culture abroad. Carefully recruited and selected as symbols of conventional femininity, these adventurous young women saw in the theater of war a bridge between public service and private ambition. This story of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the history of war and its ties to life in peacetime.