To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War - Softcover

 
9781935106807: To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1935106805 ISBN 13: 9781935106807
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press, 2015

Synopsis

On April 2, 1917, the United States officially entered a war that had been raging for nearly three years in Europe. Even though America’s involvement in the “Great War” lasted little more than a year and a half, the changes it wrought were profound. More than seventy thousand Arkansans served as soldiers during the war.

Wartime propaganda led to suspicions directed against Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and African Americans in Arkansas, but war production proved a boon to the state in the form of greater demand for cotton, minerals, and timber.

World War I connected Arkansas to the world in ways that changed the state and its people forever, as shown in the essays collected here.

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About the Author

Michael D. Polston is staff historian for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA), a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System, USA.

Guy Lancaster is editor of the EOA.

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Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1935106805
ISBN 13 
9781935106807
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
200
Editor
Polston Mike, Lancaster Guy