Lost battalions : the Great War and the crisis of American nationality / Richard Slotkin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slotkin, Richard, 1942-
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : H. Holt, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Infantry Regiment, 369th > History.
United States. > Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
World War, 1914-1918 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, African American.
African American soldiers > History > 20th century.
United States. > Army > African American troops > History > 20th century.
Minorities > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:xii, 639 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Safe for democracy: the lost battalion and the Harlem Hell Fighters
  • "The great composite American": Theodore Roosevelt and American nationalism, 1880-1917
  • No black in the rainbow: the origin of the Harlem Hell Fighters, 1911-1917
  • "The Jews and Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": recruiting the melting pot division, July-December 1917
  • The politics of ridicule: the 15th New York goes to war, October 1917-May 1918
  • The slamming of great doors: entering the world of combat, May-September 1918
  • Home fires burning: political and racial reaction, summer 1918
  • "Tout le Monde à la Bataille!": the allied offensive begins, September 12-27, 1918
  • The last long mile: the Hell Fighters at Bellevue Ridge and Sechault, September 26-October 1, 1918
  • The lost battalion: Whittlesey's command at Charlevaux Mill, October 1-8, 1918
  • Print the legend: the "lost battalion" as public myth
  • "No man's land is ours": the Hell Fighters and the last battalion return, February-May 1919
  • The black and the red: race riots, red scares, and the triumph of reaction, 1919-1924
  • Unknown soldiers: Charles Whittlesey and Henry Johnson, 1919-1929
  • "Say, don't you remember...?": public memory, public myth, and the meaning of the war, 1919-1930
  • The new deal and the renewal of American nationalism, 1930-1941
  • The bargain renewed: the myth of the "good war" and the memory of the lost battalions, 1938-1965 .