Kevin M. Bair Professor Furgol Social History of Medicine 6 December 2016 The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility that the British media, by publishing stories about fictitious male heroes to boys and young men before and during World War One, helped...
World War 1 Articles
The 1920 Lynching of Sergeant Caldwell
Greetings and welcome to this weeks HIST 701 blog. This a copy of my script and it is a poor script. This video has mistakes, it is not polished and shows that I still have much to learn in presenting and making videos. For this week’s...
Power of the Hero Image: The Uniform, The Black Soldier and the Ku Klux Klan
Power of the Hero Image: The Uniform, The Black Soldier and the Ku Klux Klan By Kevin Bair December 14, 2018 Table of Contents Introduction 2 The Uniform 5 The Heroic Soldiers 6 Power of Image 11 Riots, Soldier and World War One 18 Houston Riots 22 World War One 26...
Whose Democracy? Racism, Black Soldiers, and the Medal of Honor
Racism, Black Soldiers, and the Medal of Honor By Kevin M. Bair Professor Furgol Johns Hopkins University AS.450.654.81 and 82 “When the lamps went out”: World War One as history, memory and commemoration December 14, 2018 Introduction The intent of this paper is to...