World War I and America : told by the Americans who lived it / A. Scott Berg, editor

Published:: New York, N.Y. : The Library Of America, [2017]
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 987 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators:: Berg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott)

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Machine generated contents note: Death of an Archduke: Sarajevo, June 1914 -- From A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium / Hugh Gibson -- The War Begins: Belgium, July--August 1914 -- Memorandum, August 2, 1914 / Walter Hines Page -- "The Grand Smash Is Come": London, August 1914 -- Hugo Munsterberg to the Boston Herald, August 5, 1914 -- Defending Germany: Massachusetts, August 1914 -- Walter Hines Page to Woodrow Wilson, August 9, 1914 -- Britain Goes to War: London, August 1914 -- Statement on Neutrality, August 18, 1914 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., August 1914 -- Richard Harding Davis to the New York Tribune, August 21 and 30, 1914 -- The Fall of Brussels and Burning of Louvain: Belgium, August 1914 -- Theodore Roosevelt to Hugo Munsterberg, October 3, 1914 -- "Justice and Fair Play": Long Island, October 1914 -- World War and the Color Line / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "White Imperialism": New York, November 1914 -- Nellie Bly to the New York Evening Journal, October 30 and November 10, 1914 -- "Hungry, Wet, Weary": Przemysl and Budapest, October-November 1914 -- The Logic of Fanaticism, November 28, 1914 / George Santayana -- "A Vain Hatred": England, November 1914 -- I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier / Alfred Bryan -- "My Boy Belongs to Me": New York, January 1915 -- In Argonne / Edith Wharton -- "The War-Vision": France, February-March ms -- Goutchevo and the Valley of Corpses / John Reed -- "A Fifty-Mile Grave": Serbia, April 1915 -- From The Lusitania's Last Voyage / Charles E. Lauriat Jr. -- "The Final Plunge": Off the Irish Coast, May 1915 -- Address to Naturalized Citizens at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May 10, 1915 / Woodrow Wilson -- Philadelphia, May 10, 1915 -- The New York Times: Roosevelt for Prompt Action, May 12, 1915 -- "There Are Things Worse Than War": New York, May 1915 -- William Jennings Bryan to Gottlieb von Jagow, May 13, 1915 -- "The Sacred Freedom of the Seas": Washington, D.C., May 1915 -- Henry Morgenthau to William Jennings Bryan, May 25, 1915 -- Reports of Armenian Massacres: Istanbul, May 1915 -- Lusitania / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "The Lie Unveiled": New York, June 1915 -- Robert Lansing to Gottlieb von Jagow, June 9, 1915 -- "The Rights of Humanity": Washington, D.C., June 1915 -- Zalezchik the Terrible / John Reed -- With the Russian Army: Galicia, June 1915 -- In the North / Edith Wharton -- Ypres and Dunkirk: Flanders, June 1915 -- Henry James to Herbert Henry Asquith, June 28, 1915 -- Changing Nationality: London, June 1915 -- Leslie Davis to Henry Morgenthau, June 30 and July 11, 1915 -- "To Destroy the Armenian Race": Eastern Anatolia, June--July 1915 -- Henry Morgenthau to Robert Lansing, July 16, 1915 -- "A Campaign of Race Extermination": Istanbul, July 1915 -- The Revolt Against War / Jane Addams -- An Appeal for Peace: New York, July 1915 -- Richard Harding Davis to The New York Times, July 13, 1915 -- A Response to June Addams: New York, July 1915 -- Diary, September 16--September 24, 1915, and to Elsie Simmons Seeger, October 25, 1915 / Alan Seeger -- Second Battle of Champagne: France, September--October 1915 -- Damaged Trenches / James Norman Hall -- Battle of Loos: France, October 1915 -- Henry Morgenthau to Robert Lansing, November 4, 1915 -- Assessing the Ottoman Leadership: Istanbul, November 1915 -- Theodore Roosevelt to William Castle, Jr., November 13, 1915 -- "A More Ignoble Sentiment": Long Island, November 1915 -- Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter / Emma Goldman -- "The War Anesthesis": New York, December 1915 -- George E. Riis to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 6, 1916 -- The Ford Peace Ship: Scotland, December 1915 -- I Have a Rendezvous with Death / Alan Seeger -- "Some Scarred Slope": France, Winter 1916 -- Alone / Ellen N. La Motte -- Gas Gangrene: Flanders, Spring 1916 -- Address to Congress, April 19, 1916 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., April 1916 -- From Diary of Section VIII / William B. Seabrook -- "Baptism of Fire": France, May 1916 -- Victor Chapman to John Jay Chapman, June 1, 1916 -- Flying over Verdun: France, June 1916 -- Conspiracy / Mary Borden -- Broken and Mended: France, Summer 1916 -- Boelcke, Knight of the Air / Herbert Bayard Swope -- A German Ace: France, October 1916 -- Speech at Cooper Union, November 3, 1916 / Theodore Roosevelt -- Wilson's Failures: New York, November 1916 -- John Jay Chapman to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, January 4, 1917 -- A "Monument to Zero": Massachusetts, January 1917 -- Not to Keep / Robert Frost -- "To Go Again": Winter 1917 -- Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., January 1917 -- "The Diary of a Retreat," March 10, 1917 / H. L. Mencken -- U-Boat Warfare: Germany, February 1917 -- Memorandum on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany, February 4, 1917 / Robert Lansing -- Washington, D.C., January--February 1917 -- New York Tribune: Germany Asks Mexico to Seek Alliance with Japan for War on U.S., March 1, 1917 -- The Zimmermann Telegram: Washington, D.C., February 1917 -- Diary, March 19--24, 1917 / Edmond C. C. Genet -- The Lafayette Escadrille: France, March 1917 -- Address to Congress on War with Germany, April 2, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., April 1917 -- Speech in the U.S. Senate, April 4, 1917 / George Norris -- "Let Europe Solve Her Problems": Washington, D.C., April 1917 -- Over There / George M. Cohan -- "The Tanks Are Coming": New York, April 1917 -- Majority Report of the St. Louis Socialist Convention, April 11, 1917 -- Opposing Capitalist War: Missouri, April 1917 -- The World Conflict in Its Relation to American Democracy "A Union of Liberal Peoples": Philadelphia, April 1917 / Walter Lippmann -- Introduction to Women of Belgium Feeding Belgium: April 1917 / Herbert Hoover -- The New York Times: German Airmen Kill 97, Hurt 437 in London Raid, June 14, 1917 -- Bombers Over London: England, June 1917 -- Flag Day Address in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, B.C., June 1917 -- The War and the Intellectuals / Randolph Bourne -- "The Riveting of the War-Mind": New York, June 1917 -- Carlos F. Hurd to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1917 -- The East St. Louis Race Riot: Illinois, July 1917 -- War's Heretics, a Plea for the Conscientious Objector / Norman Thomas -- "The Social Value of Heresy": New York, August 1917 -- Jessie Fauset to The Survey, August 18, 1917 -- "Moral Disintegration": New York, August 1917 -- John Dos Passos to Rumsey Marvin, August 23, 1917 -- "The War Is Utter Damn Nonsense": France, August 1917 -- Houston, an N.A.A.C.P. Investigation / Martha Gruening -- Black Soldiers Rebel: Texas, August 1917 -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Sarah Cleghorn, September 5, 1917 -- Defending Free Speech in America: France, September 1917 -- Experienced Men Wanted, November 8, 1917 / James Weldon Johnson -- Black Leaders for Black Troops: New York, November 1917 -- Votes for All / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Every Woman's Struggle: New York, November 1917 -- Unidentified / Mary Borden -- "This Nameless Man": France, Autumn 1917 -- From The Way of the Eagle / Charles J. Biddle -- Shooting Down a "Hun": France, December 1917 -- The Sayings of Patsy, December 30, 1917 / Bernice Evans -- Wartime Work for Women: New York, December 1917 -- Address to Congress on War Aims, January 8, 1918 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., January 1918 -- From / Saw Them Die / Shirley Millard -- "Stabbing Cries of Pain": France, March 1918 -- Remarks to the Officers of the 1st Division, April 16, 1918 / John J. Pershing -- The "Will to Win": France, April 1918 -- From I Saw Them Die / Shirley Millard -- "How Can I Be Glad?": France, May 1918 -- Wounded--How It Feels to Be Shot / Floyd Gibbons -- Battle of Belleau Wood: France, June 1918 -- From Stretchers / Frederick A. Pottle -- Treating American Wounded: France, June 1918 -- "Why Should a Negro Fight?," June 29, 1918 / James Weldon Johnson -- Rights and Duties: New York, June 1918 -- Close Ranks / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "The Crisis of the World": New York, July 1918 -- Why Is the Red Cross? / Hubert H. Harrison -- Refusing Black Nurses: New York, July 1918 -- Ernest Hemingway to His Family, July 21, 1918 -- Wounded at the Front: Italy, July 1918 -- Statement on Lynching, July 26, 1918 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., July 1918 -- On Patrol in No Man's Land / James Reese Europe -- "Ain't It Grand?": France, July 1918 -- From / Saw Them Die / Shirley Millard -- "Real Nobility": France, July 1918 -- From Toward the Flame / Hervey Allen -- Battle of Fismette: France, August 1918 -- Ernest Hemingway to His Family, August 18, 1918 -- "Hurting Like 227 Little Devils": Italy, August 1918 -- Frederick Trevenen Edwards to Frederick Edwards, September 12, 1918 -- The St. Mihiel Offensive: France, September 1918 -- Speech to the Court, September 14, 1918 / Eugene V. Debs -- "Gold Is God": Ohio, September 1918 -- Roll Call on the Prairies / Willa Cather -- "Living in the War": Nebraska, Summer 1918 -- From Experiences of the Great War / Ashby Williams -- "The Hellish Thing": France, September 1918 -- From A Blue Ridge Memoir / Edward C. Lukens -- Battle of the Meuse-Argonne: France, September 1918 -- From "Autobiography, First World War" / Horace Pippin -- The "Harlem Hellfighters" Attack: France, September 1918 -- From "History of First Vermont and 57th Pioneer Infantry" / Ernest W. Gibson -- "The Dreaded Influenza": Crossing the Atlantic, September--October 1918 -- From History of the U.S.S. Leviathan / Henry A. May -- Influenza on a Troopship: The Atlantic, September--October 1918 -- Address to the Senate on Woman Suffrage, September 30, 1918 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., September 1918 -- From Experiences of the Great War / Ashby Williams -- "I Am Not Dead": France, October 1918 -- Runyon Sees Return of Lost New York Battalion, October 13, 1918 / Damon Runyon -- Surrounded in the Argonne: France, October 1918 --
Contents note continued: Second and Third Peace Notes to Germany, October 14 and 23, 1918 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., October 1918 -- John J. Pershing to the Supreme War Council, October 30, 1918 -- Setting Armistice Terms: France, October 1918 -- Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, November 10 and 11, 1918 -- Waiting for the Armistice: France, November 1918 -- Robert J. Casey: from The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears -- "The Silence Is Oppressive": France, November 1918 -- From Shadow-Shapes / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant -- Wilson Arrives in Paris: France, December 1918 -- How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em / Joe Young -- Down on the Farm? "After They've Seen Paree": New York, Winter 1919 -- Opinion in Schenck v. United States, March 3, 1919 / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- "A Clear and Present Danger": Washington, D.C., March 1919 -- Diary, March 8, April 3--5, and April 7, 1919 / Ray Stannard Baker -- Wilson at the Peace Conference: France, March-April 1919 -- Diary, March 30-April 1, and April 18--19, 1919 / Vernon E. Kniptash -- Returning Home: Germany and the Atlantic, March--April 1919 -- Diary, April 18--21, 1919 / Elmer W. Sherwood -- "Snobbishness and Caste": The Atlantic, April 1919 -- Clyde D. Eoff to Josephine Eoff, April 28, 1919 -- Old Trucks and New Cars: Germany, April 1919 -- Returning Soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Returning to "A Shameful Land": New York, May 1919 -- Charles R. Isum to W.E.B. Du Bois, May 17, 1919 -- Confronting Injustice: Los Angeles, Winter 1919 -- From Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference / Will Rogers -- "The Peace Feast": May 1919 -- Memorial Day Address at Suresnes, May 30, 1919 / Woodrow Wilson -- France, May 1919 -- The Little Peoples / Claude McKay -- "The Big Men of the World": New York, July 1919 -- The "Second Lines" / George Creel -- American Propaganda: 1917--1919 -- Address to the Senate on the League of Nations, July 10, 1919 / Woodrow Wilson -- Washington, D.C., July 1919 -- An Exchange, July 23 and 31, 1919 / Woodrow Wilson -- Naming the War: Washington, D.C., July 1919 -- Speech in the U.S. Senate on the league of Nations, August 12, 1919 / Henry Cabot Lodge -- "This Murky Covenant": Washington, D.C., August 1919 -- "If We Must Die" / Claude McKay -- "The New Negro Has Arrived": New York, September 1919 -- Speech at Pueblo, Colorado, September 25, 1919 / Woodrow Wilson -- Colorado, September 1919 -- Dissenting Opinion in Abrams v. United States, November 10, 1919 / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- "Free Trade in Ideas": Washington, D.C., November 1919 -- Before the Buford Sailed / William N. Vaile -- Deporting Radicals: New York, December 1919 -- From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- "Walked Eye-Deep in Hell": England, Spring 1920 -- From Shell Shock and Its Aftermath / Norman Fenton -- Measuring Psychic Wounds: 1919--1920 -- From The Folly of Nations / Frederick Palmer -- Recalling Wartime Deception: 1917--1920 -- Myth and Blood / Ludwig Lewisohn -- A Dissenting Professor: Ohio and New York, 1914--1921 -- Address at the Burial of an Unknown American Soldier, November 11, 1921 / Warren G. Harding -- Arlington, November 1921 -- CODA -- Soldier's Home / Ernest Hemingway -- My sweet old etcetera / E. E. Cummings -- The Body of an American / John Dos Passos.

Summary:

A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.
"The world must be made safe for democracy," Woodrow Wilson declared a century ago, as he led the nation into war. This collection brings together 127 pieces that tell the vivid story of battlefront and homefront from Sarajevo and the invasion of Belgium through the sinking of the Lusitania, the Armenian genocide, the controversy over intervention, and the terrible ferocity of Belleau Wood and the Meuse-Argonne, to the League of Nations debate and the racial violence and political repression that divided postwar America. The writing gathered here illuminates, as no retrospective history can, how Americans perceived and felt about the war, why they supported or opposed intervention, how they endured the nightmarish reality of modern industrial warfare, and how they experienced the uncertainty and contingency of unfolding events. And it shows how World War I framed issues that still haunt us: what role should America play in the world? Are our claims to moral leadership abroad undercut by racial injustice at home? What does our nation owe those who fight on its behalf? Among the writers: war correspondent Richard Harding Davis witnesses the burning of Louvain; Edith Wharton tours the war zones in the Argonne and Flanders; John Reed records the devastation in Serbia and Galicia; diplomats Henry Morgenthau and Leslie Davis report on the extermination of the Armenians; Jane Addams and Emma Goldman warn against militarism; pilots Victor Chapman and Edmond Genet describe flying with the Lafayette Escadrille; infantry officer Hervey Allen recalls the hellish fighting at Fismette; nurses Ellen N. La Motte and Mary Borden depict the "human wreckage" brought into military hospitals; suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt connects the war with the struggle for women's rights; and justice Oliver Wendell Holmes considers the limits of free speech in wartime. W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Jessie Redmon Fauset expose the contradiction between the nation's claim to be fighting for democracy abroad and its brutal treatment of African Americans at home. The international role of the United States is debated in strikingly contemporary terms by Wilson and his critics, as the nation grapples with its emergence as a leading world power. A coda presents three iconic literary works by Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos that capture the postwar disillusionment felt by many Americans. Includes headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, and an index.--Jacket.

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1598535145 (hbk.)
9781598535143 (hbk.)

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Map on liner papers.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 889-900) and index.

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