Date of Award
2015
Degree Name
History
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Phillip Rutherford
Second Advisor
Laura Michele Diener
Third Advisor
Daniel Holbrook
Abstract
This work is a comprehensive study of American soldiers‘ writings during World War II as they related to personal and national postwar aims. The paper uses military and domestic publications along with a selection of memoirs and diaries published during and immediately after the war to create an overview of soldiers' ideological and material desires of postwar America.
Subject(s)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Recommended Citation
Stevens, Amanda Lee, "GI Jive: US Soldiers' Writings and Post-World War II America" (2015). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 907.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/907
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