Wars in the Middle East, Contemporary Narratives of Return, Community College of RI
Perspectives on the Vietnam War, Providence Public Library
Images of Homecoming in America through the World Wars, University of Rhode Island
Perspectives on the Vietnam War, Providence Public Library
Images of Homecoming in America through the World Wars, University of Rhode Island
This project features humanities’ scholars and a panel of veterans to participate in open public dialogue about the homecoming experience. The goal of this project is encourage veterans, their families, and the public to engage in open dialogue about the challenges veterans experience as they reintegrate into civilian society. Homecoming representations in literature and history texts will provide a catalyst for the discussion that will be introduced by humanities’ scholars. The event is free and open to the public but we do ask that you register here.
9/11/16 Homecoming in America through the World Wars Materials Under Discussion
Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone, Excerpt
James Europe, “All of No Man’s Land is Ours,”
J.D. Salinger “For Esme with Love and Squalor,”
W.E.B Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis, XVIII (May, 1919)
Allan Berube, “Chapter 9: Rights, Justice, and a New Minority” from Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
Ira Katznelson, “Chapter 5: White Veterans Only” from When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America,
Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw, Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke Jim Crow,
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
“Symbols and Metaphor in The Best Years of Our Lives” Dartnell
10/16/16 Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Tim O’Brien, “Good Form,” “Spin,” “Speaking of Courage"
Lynda Devanter Home Before Morning, Excerpt
Bruce Weigl, “Burning Shit at An Khe"
Robert Self, “Chapter 2: Last Man to Die: Vietnam and the Citizen Soldier” from All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
Robert W. Widell, Jr., Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle, 222-229
Jerry Lembcke, “Introduction: The Spitting Image” from The Spitting Image: Myth Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Ashes and Embers
“Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology,” Rick Berg, Excerpt
“The Vietnam Generation’s Military Minority: A Statistical Profile” from Christian G. Appy’s Working Class War, Excerpt
Wayne F. Smith “I was thanking God they didn’t have air support” from Christian Appy Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides, Excerpt
“Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town”
11/13/16 Wars in the Middle East, Contemporary Narratives of Return
Phil Klay, “Redeployment,”
Mariette Kalinowski, “The Train,”
Anthony Moll, “Last Year,”
Gill Sotu, “Progress Not Perfection,”
Southern Oral History Project, “Special Research Projects: Military Dissenters: Veterans, Military Families, and the Iraq and Afghan Wars”
Florentina Garnanez (R-0381): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/16295/rec/5
Demond Mullins (R-0385): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/15848/rec/9
Frank Corcoran (R-0379): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/16032/rec/3
David Finkel, “Prologue & Chapter 1,” Thank You for Your Service
Matt Richtel, “Please Don’t Thank Me For My Service,” New York Times: February 21, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html)
Cara Hoffmann, “The Things She Carried,” New York Times: March 31, 2014 (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/opinion/the-things-she-carried.html)
Andrew J. Bacevich, “He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill is Due.,” Washington Post: October 5, 2008 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301977.html)
Photomontage: http://www.martharosler.net/photo/war2/war1.html
The Messenger (film)
“The Messenger Movie Review & Film Summary,” Roger Ebert
Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone, Excerpt
James Europe, “All of No Man’s Land is Ours,”
J.D. Salinger “For Esme with Love and Squalor,”
W.E.B Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” The Crisis, XVIII (May, 1919)
Allan Berube, “Chapter 9: Rights, Justice, and a New Minority” from Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two
Ira Katznelson, “Chapter 5: White Veterans Only” from When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America,
Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw, Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke Jim Crow,
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
“Symbols and Metaphor in The Best Years of Our Lives” Dartnell
10/16/16 Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Tim O’Brien, “Good Form,” “Spin,” “Speaking of Courage"
Lynda Devanter Home Before Morning, Excerpt
Bruce Weigl, “Burning Shit at An Khe"
Robert Self, “Chapter 2: Last Man to Die: Vietnam and the Citizen Soldier” from All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
Robert W. Widell, Jr., Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle, 222-229
Jerry Lembcke, “Introduction: The Spitting Image” from The Spitting Image: Myth Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam
Ashes and Embers
“Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology,” Rick Berg, Excerpt
“The Vietnam Generation’s Military Minority: A Statistical Profile” from Christian G. Appy’s Working Class War, Excerpt
Wayne F. Smith “I was thanking God they didn’t have air support” from Christian Appy Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides, Excerpt
“Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town”
11/13/16 Wars in the Middle East, Contemporary Narratives of Return
Phil Klay, “Redeployment,”
Mariette Kalinowski, “The Train,”
Anthony Moll, “Last Year,”
Gill Sotu, “Progress Not Perfection,”
Southern Oral History Project, “Special Research Projects: Military Dissenters: Veterans, Military Families, and the Iraq and Afghan Wars”
Florentina Garnanez (R-0381): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/16295/rec/5
Demond Mullins (R-0385): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/15848/rec/9
Frank Corcoran (R-0379): http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/16032/rec/3
David Finkel, “Prologue & Chapter 1,” Thank You for Your Service
Matt Richtel, “Please Don’t Thank Me For My Service,” New York Times: February 21, 2015 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/sunday-review/please-dont-thank-me-for-my-service.html)
Cara Hoffmann, “The Things She Carried,” New York Times: March 31, 2014 (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/opinion/the-things-she-carried.html)
Andrew J. Bacevich, “He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill is Due.,” Washington Post: October 5, 2008 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301977.html)
Photomontage: http://www.martharosler.net/photo/war2/war1.html
The Messenger (film)
“The Messenger Movie Review & Film Summary,” Roger Ebert
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