TY  - GEN
T1  - Historians on the homefront : American propagandists for the great war
A1  - Blakey, George T.
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 1970
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900345130
AB  - When Woodrow Wilson called on the American people to mobilize for war in April 1917, it was hardly surprising that historians should respond to their one-time colleague. Mobilization produced three organizations staffed by many of America's leading historians. All three organizations, the author shows, viewed as their task the mobilizing of America's intellectual resources in support of Wilson's war policies. The postwar decade saw an inevitable cooling of wartime passions and a reevaluation of the causes of the war. George T. Blakey examines the postwar reaction to the activities of the CPI, NBHS, and NSL, which included congressional investigations and acerbic attacks in popular and scholarly periodicals. A number of the historians came to regret their wartime propaganda work; a few of these joined the ranks of the revisionists and turned on their colleagues. Others merely strengthened their Germanophobia. The majority, Mr. Blakely finds, resumed their academic careers, apparently untouched by the part they had played in mobilizing the American war effort. The question of scholarly integrity versus propaganda has never been fully resolved, the author concludes, but later generations of historians can still learn much from the example of America's World War I historians-turned-propagandists.
OP  - 168
CN  - D619 .B57
SN  - 9780813162140
SN  - 0813162149
SN  - 9780813151298
SN  - 0813112362
SN  - 9780813112367
SN  - 0813151295
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Propaganda.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : United States.
KW  - Historians : United States.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Propagande.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : États-Unis.
KW  - Historiens : États-Unis.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : 20th Century.
KW  - Historians
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - United States
KW  - 1914-1918
ER  -