Home Front Studies

Presenting the newest issue of _Home Front Studies_! Gorgeous work by the design crew, no? Table of contents here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56070. Thanks to the authors, editorial team,@UNPjournals, & reviewers. One more step forward for #homefront-themed scholarship! @setonhall_chdcm

#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! doi.org/qvt7

#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! doi.org/g9446s

#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. doi.org/qtfb

#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 doi.org/qr99

#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. doi.org/qrd5

#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 doi.org/qqss

#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 doi.org/qptx

#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 doi.org/qn39

#homefront article of the week: In #WWI #Australia, military mock weddings sometimes were all-women affairs. Nadia Bailey adroitly explores this activity, which was nominally for fundraising, in terms of #queer & #trans possibilities. A fascinating essay! doi.org/g883gf

#homefront article of the week: #Japanese & #German-descended US citizens were targets of authorities in #WWII. But did you know the FBI investigated #Hungarian-Americans too? Eszter Rakita makes the point in this sharp case study of the Gondos family. doi.org/qkgs

#homefront article of the week: Did the #British press lie to & betray gullible #WWI readers? Andrew Griffiths digs deeply into the archives to investigate, finding complex civilian responses to news reports that tell a very different story. @OU_Literature doi.org/qkgr

#homefront article of the week: #NewYearsDay 1951—Ernest Hansell, of the far right Social Credit Party, warns of “a conspiracy to enslave” #Canadians. Kevin Anderson has the details in this study of the political fringes during the #ColdWar. @UCalgaryArts doi.org/qgn6

#homefront article of the week: #Christmas in #WWII #Sweden: Retaining a consumer culture in a world at war is hard. Here, three scholars study the Frontline Christmas Gift campaign for soldiers, which supported narratives of unity but upheld gender norms. doi.org/g29ntg

#homefront article of the week: #NaziGermany in 1943 had reasons to distract the public. Here, Mary Hennessy adroitly shows that the film Großstadtmelodie repurposed interwar feminine imagery to depict a Berlin free from #WWII's fragmentations. @UWMadGNS doi.org/qgn2

#homefront article of the week: Robin J. C. Adams & Vaida Nikšaitė flash back to the Second #Polish Republic’s 1918-1921 border wars to show that its #warbond campaign was a fundraising effort AND a performance of sovereignty. @QUBManagement @ULBruxelles doi.org/qgnx

#homefront article of the week: @Christi54907923 flashes back to the #PhilippineAmericanWar (1899–1902) with a fascinating archival study of popular home front & military songs—spotlighting their entanglement with race, gender, and imperialism. @umichsmtd doi.org/qf5h

#homefront article of the week: Ágnes Tamás examines #German, #Austrian, & #Hungarian propaganda caricatures from #WWI, finding that ridiculing the #enemy—including cartoonish depictions of injury—was a new, disturbing trend compared to earlier conflicts. dx.doi.org/10.7592/EJHR20…

#homefront article of the week: #USCivilWar history no longer focuses almost exclusively on masculinized battlefields. @RedheadProf proves the point in this review essay, showing how #women’s roles & #gender studies have assertively stepped onto the stage. doi.org/qdth

#homefront article of the week: @lisajhackett studies depictions of the Air Transport Auxiliary in #WWII #British newsreels. Women flying military aircraft pitted wartime needs against #gender roles--& #propagandists had to adapt accordingly. Details here: doi.org/qcwz