American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
      • Abbreviations
    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Growing Up
      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
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      • On Her Own
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

ALDRICH, MILDRED. A Hilltop on the Marne (1915). Full text on Google books. Personal account of France at the beginning of World War I by an American woman. Aldrich followed Hilltop with On the Edge of the War Zone (1917) and The Peak of the Load (1918). Full View on Google Books

BROWN, WALT JR., EDITOR. An American for Lafayette (1981). The war diaries of Lafayette Escadrille pilot Edmund Genet.

DEVLIN, PATRICK. Too Proud to Fight: Woodrow Wilson’s Neutrality (1974). The philosophy behind American neutrality.

FLAMMER, PHILIP. The Vivid Air: The Lafayette Escadrille (1981). Well researched history of the escadrille.

HALL, JAMES NORMAN. High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (1918). James Hall’s beautifully written account of his experience in the Lafayette Escadrille. Full View on Google Books

HALL, JAMES NORMAN, AND CHARLES NORDHOFF. Falcons of France (1929). Vivid fictional account of the Lafayette Escadrille written by two of its pilots.

HALL, JAMES NORMAN, AND CHARLES NORDHOFF, EDITORS. The Lafayette Flying Corps (2 vols., 1920). History of the corps by two pilots including photos, biographical sketches, and documents. Full View on Google Books

MCKAY, ERNEST A. Against Wilson and War, 1914–1917 (1996). Exploration of Americans who opposed entry into the war by an author who believes these supporters of neutrality were right.

ZEIGER, SUSAN. In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force (1999). Roughly sixteen thousand served overseas in World War I, but mainly in traditional “domestic” roles.

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