Home Front Studies

A peer-reviewed journal probing the history & experience of wartime home fronts, broadly considered. Published by @UnivNebPress. Posts by the editor.

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Announcing the New Voices Prize in Home Front Studies! @HomeFrontSt, published by @UnivNebPress, invites submissions from emerging / non-tenured scholars whose work examines the experience of the wartime home front, broadly considered. See details here: https://t.co/iySVG3R3zJ

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#homefront article of the week: If you lack butter, you should try cod-liver oil, right? Gerd Berget revisits #WWII #Norway to examine in detail how #housewives navigated wartime information needs and how they capably adapted their behavior. Fascinating! https://t.co/fGdIIj7yFc

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#homefront article of the week: Wartime #tourism!? Stephen Page & Joanne Connell flash back to #WWI to explore the #UK government’s anti-tourist policies, necessary because public demand for leisure travel persisted despite the all-out war effort. https://t.co/DbBYPhQEhM

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#homefront article of the week: In #WWI #France, officials aimed to protect the nation’s future by prioritizing #children's #health. Sara Elizabeth Black studies the resulting propaganda, here with a heavy emphasis on fighting #tuberculosis. @CNUcaptains https://t.co/dVcXC6Biwp

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#homefront article of the week: The folks at the _Indiana Magazine of History_ unearth moving excerpts from the #USCivilWar diary of Theophilus A. Wylie, whose pen provides a close-up view of the war’s impact on the city of Bloomington. @IndianaHistory https://t.co/Nkaunr6kwW

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#homefront article of the week: S. Louisa Wei & Yuka Kanno search for common patterns among the careers of three #WWII-era #women—#queer filmmakers who were situated across the world. The wide-ranging analysis is thoughtful & thought-provoking. https://t.co/3vpymWfEtp

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#homefront article of the week: Kavita Gawrinauth offers a compelling study of the resilience of #WWII #Chinese women as seen through missionary perspectives. What emerges is an inspiring image of overcoming adversity through sisterhood. @NYUHistory https://t.co/wEiULEmmCV

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#homefront article of the week: Junghee Moon presents a fascinating study of the roots of imperial #Japan’s conceptualization of #women’s wartime roles via artist Chen Chin’s depictions of #Taiwanese #Indigenous women as the symbolic embodiment of war. https://t.co/cN8YgxLu8F

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#homefront article of the week: Sport activities interact with wars in surprising ways. Here, Michael Collins shows how #WWII #English #cricket reached massive crowds & radio audiences, feeding racialized & imperial wartime identities. @UCLSocHistSci
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#homefront article of the week: How we _remember_ wars may matter as much as how they actually happened. Here, Joachim Schiedermair analyzes a #Norwegian #comicbook to show how indexical signs play a key role in processing & remembering wartime experience. https://t.co/5fRPxLtjf8

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#homefront article of the week: Fighting against toxic workplaces isn’t new. Here, Robin Dearmon Muhammad highlights the #BayArea’s #WWII #Black #Women, who used every tool at their disposal to fight workplace racism and injustices. Inspiring work! https://t.co/jl9xn9H0xL

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#homefront article of the week: Catherine Bond revisits #WWI #Australia to assess Prime Minister William Hughes’s unusual bids to legalize marriage-by-proxy unions & to enable divorces between Australian combatants and UK women they married while serving. https://t.co/XYRGKugSrR

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#homefront article of the week: Interested in the local, personal experience of #WWII? Navi Binning reminds us of the ongoing availability of @BBC’s WW2 People’s War archive, an impressively deep site with over 47,000 stories. Super research resource! https://t.co/x2QV5BvHdZ

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#homefront article of the week: Andreas Åkerlund flashes back to 1933-43 Sweden to study the activities of a secret German-based propaganda arm, using extensive archival work to find links between clandestine operations and published content. Fascinating! https://t.co/8wZ4iXputa

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#homefront article of the week: Civilians die in wartime, but not proportionally, as it turns out. Here, 4 Spanish scholars use #SpanishCivilWar data to show that potential leaders—in this case, clerics—were _far more likely_ to be targets of armed actors. https://t.co/3qqhuQU1Z8

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#homefront article of the week: Bridget Laramie Kelly revisits the 1943 #Harlem Uprising, finding that the role of #Black #women in the #WWII episode represented an emerging feminine rage with long-term implications. Super archival work! @WashUHistory https://t.co/BbpiDqPW27

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#homefront article of the week: After Gen. Joffre’s 1914 Marne victory, French babies were much more likely to be named Joffre, Joffrette, or Joffrine. In a social scientific piece, Nicolas Todd & Baptiste Coulmont unveil a new approach to naming patterns. https://t.co/jHUIs9pDAB

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#homefront article of the week: You know of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a resistance fighter killed by the #Nazis. But maybe not his older brother. Jutta Koslowski unearths Klaus Bonhoeffer’s influence on Dietrich & his own martyrdom. @theboncenter https://t.co/vn7vpsZ1m7

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#homefront article of the week: A photo of PFC Susan Baptist inspires Jasmyn R. Castro’s incisive study of the role of African American women working as film projectionists in the #WWII-era #Women's Air Corps. A great intersectionality example. @UCLA_TFT https://t.co/nMqx0f2ekS

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#homefront article of the week: Donal Ó Drisceoil highlights the nature of propagandistic #Irish discourse in fostering & encouraging violence through this visceral study of the enmifying rhetoric of both sides in 1922—on the eve of the #CivilWar. @UCC https://t.co/1KyRwWGoOR