looked at the decline of the American maritime fleet in Sovereignty for Sale: The Origins and Evolution of the Panamanian and Liberian Flags of Convenience (1981), picks up with the US merchant marine under attack in Sovereignty at Sea: US Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I....
looked at the decline of the American maritime fleet in Sovereignty for Sale: The Origins and Evolution of the Panamanian and Liberian Flags of Convenience (1981), picks up with the US merchant marine under attack in Sovereignty at Sea: US Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I....
1. Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917) In this speech before Congress, President Woodrow Wilson made the case for America’s entry into World War I. 2. Alan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916) The poet Alan Seeger, born in New York and educated at Harvard University, lived am...
Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I. By Rodney Carlisle. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2010. Pp.xv, 232. $69.95.)Ronald Bruce Frankum Jr.
Addams emerged as a prominent opponent of America’s entry into World War I. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. ((Karen Manners Smith, “New Paths to Power: 1890–1920,” in No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States, ed. Nancy Cott (New York: Oxford ...
The American Legion is a social and mutual-aid veterans' organization including members of the United States armed forces. The organization was founded in 1919 by veterans returning from Europe after World War I, and was later chartered as an official Am
April 6 marks the centenary of the United States’ entry into World War I. But how should Americans remember the war? In Hungary, for example, World War I is often remembered for the Treaty of Trianon, a peace treaty that ended Hungarian involvement in the war and cost Hungary two-thirds...
The Entry of United States in World War United States was neutral in World war until Japan attacked its Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was the morning, when around 400 planes of Japan started bombing the Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Pilots were elite as they were in...
Stated American attitudes toward international affairs followed the advice given by President George Washington in his 1796 Farewell Address, 120 years before America’s entry into World War I. He had recommended that his fellow countrymen avoid “foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues” and “...
After World War I, Gesundheit as a response to someone's sneezing seems to have recovered rather quickly, and Webster's Fifth Collegiate Dictionary (1936) suggests that it may have rebounded somewhat as a toast, too. But its use as a greeting seems not to have recovered; and in t...