Images of German-Americans During World War I
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Authors
Sigworth, Laura
Issue Date
2012
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
This study will follow a roughly chronological progression through the
years of the First World War, beginning toward the end of the first decade of the
Twentieth century, and concluding with the immediate aftermath of the armistice and
peace negotiations. This chronological recounting of the war and surrounding events will
utilize articles, editorials, and letters to the editor pulled from a selection of prominent
newspapers from· across the United States, so as to achieve some sense of the vast array
of opinion and great proliferation of thought regarding the worth and character of
German-Americans, and their place in American society, if they were to be given any
place at all. Hopefully, after a close reading of this work, the reader will come away
from it with a sense of the great variety of thought on the subject, as opposed to an
elementary understanding of the First World War as a universal anti-German witch hunt
of sorts. In addition to this, it is hoped that the reader gains a further understanding of the
dramatically sudden nature with which new kinds of opinions on the subject arose during
the war years. If the war years were characterized by a great variety of opinion
regarding Germans and German-Americans, they were also characterized by the rise of
many new strains of thought and opinion which had not previously been present in the
national conversation, or had at the very least not been present in a significant way.
Finally, while keeping these themes of variety and change in mind, remember how this
case is a useful and illustrative example of some basic historical principles and truths.
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ii, 40 p.
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