War and Remembrance
• October 30, 2018 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Austria, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: A. G. Santagata, Anzac Memorial, Art Deco, bas relief, Bonus Expeditionary Force, C. R. W. Nevinson, Combat Hippies, Dialogues on the Experience of War, Egeo Venturi, FIU, Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, George Grosz (1893-1959), Irving Marantz, Jean Carlu, Jessica L. Adler, Kathe Ko, Kathe Kollwitz, La Dette (the debt), lobbying, Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), murals, NAH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Otto Beyer, Paintings, Periodicals, portfolios, PTSD, recruiting posters, sculpture, Shell-shock, Soldiers, trenches, veterans, Vorticism, war, War and Healing, war artists, War memorials, war monuments, War photography, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), World War I, Zoe Welch
The GI Bill: America’s Promise to the Citizen-Soldier
• June 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American war propaganda, Civilian Conservation Corps, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Anacostia Flats, Arsenal of Democracy, Bonus Expeditionary Force, Bonus March, Burnett Roth, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), demonstrations, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, GI Round Tables, Hoovervilles, Hurricanes, lobbying, Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill), shantytowns, Sheryl Gold, Steve Heller, Washington D.C.
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