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Models of the Post-Racial World? Rhetorics of Race among U.S. Military Brats
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
The U.S. military has long been claimed as a model for racial integration, having been integrated by executive order before the general population; significantly, too, the military is constantly shuffling but organized by ...
Race, Civil War Memory, and Sisterhood in the Woman's Relief Corps
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
This paper explores the intersections of race and the public remembrances of the American Civil War in the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC), auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). It specifically examines the role ...
Standing Up To Be Counted: Female Military Personnel and Online Mentoring
(2014-04)
Women working in male-dominated fields such as science and the military often encounter challenges fitting into their workplace communities, feeling themselves to be cast as less intelligent and less powerful (physically ...
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. War, Writing, Reconciliation
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
<i>Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram</i> is a diary written by a North Vietnamese field physician serving in South Vietnam during the war we fought there who treated Vietnamese communists and ...
Veterans in Society: Changing the Discourse - Conference Overview
(Virginia Tech, 2013)
The attached document describes the activities, presentations, and speeches that took place during the "Veterans in Society: Changing the Discourse" conference, which was held from April 14-15, 2013 at the Inn at Virginia ...
Images of Reintegration: Alternative Visual Rhetorics of the Returning World War II Soldier
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
During World War II, comic books and movies buoyed the public's spirits and offered hope to combat the uncertainty of a world at war. However, these visual media often did so at the expense of portraying authentic military ...
Outsiders of Battlefield Experience: The Journey Home for the Civil War Soldier
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
Present value is applied to the rapid nature of Civil War soldiers' redeployment home. This paper explores the means by which Union and Confederate soldiers found their way home and the obstacles they encountered along the ...
War Trauma in the Construction of American Lost-war Culture: From WWI to Vietnam and the Present
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
The war veteran suffering Shell Shock is one of the most enduring images of twentieth century war. Among 21st century media pundits and even some medical professionals, however, few are aware that Shell Shock was largely ...
Some were free born. Some were fugitives. Some were slaves. Now they were all veterans.
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
This essay centers on the soldiers of the 102nd United States Colored Infantry (USCI), originally organized in August 1863 as the First Michigan Colored Infantry, the only all-black regiment organized in the state and one ...
Bennett H. Young and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11)
Serving twice as Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, and then holding the title of Honorary Commander-in-Chief for Life until his death in 1919, Bennett H. Young was an instrumental figure in expanding ...