The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m
The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m
During this event. Is 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this panel, the long shadow of war, veterans experiences on the home front. Our host and moderator will be joining us momentarily and we thought we would go ahead and get started in the meantime. I think we will go ahead and introduce ourselves one by one as we go along. My name is Kenneth Macleish and i teach at and the university. My research and is a subject of my book making war at fort hood, military uncertainty making war at fort hood life and uncertainty in a military community is about how people experience war and military institutions in their daily lives. Im interested in the way people experience war as something that is normal and routine and highly organized even as it is also incredibly intense, overwhelming and traumatic. My research and writing a mostly based on time that i spent at fort hood, an army base in central texas. It is one of the largest and busiest military installatio
Shaw look for these titles in bookstores and watch for the authors on booktv and on booktv. Org. Booktv continues with robert spoo. He talks about the clash between literary pirates over copyrights going back to 1790 and discusses how it has shaped the copyright laws that we have today and this is about one hour. [applause] thank you so much. As the dean indicated, most of us and a large number of legal scholars, you might be surprised to learn that an area that is not compelled by law, something that is informal but very organized, and it has grown up to fill the various needs and the various cracks in the wall of law and i am going to be talking about one of those major cracks in the law today and i will be focused on the 19th century in the United States and particularly on authors and publishers in america, really from the 1820s and 30s amah up to lease the end of the century where, as you will see, the world is really kind of turned upside down where publishing is concerned. Lawfu
Excellent literature that a sort of came from this first generation of contemporary war memoirs and reporters and just started to have this sense of the activities that war actually consists of are often, often bare of strange, of stranger or sort of i cant find the word. They often dont relate in any sort of direct way to the things that we tend to talk about war as being about. So, that was the spirit in which i did this on and its something that i still find myself thinking about a lot but thanks for the question. I hear that question mark especially since i have a military background. And i mentioned before reading some articles and being interested in trying to understand that and its also around the time in the newspapers starting to release reports about the suicide epidemic among soldiers. A kid killed himself not far from where i was living so i felt strangely complicit and yet having no power to understand what was going on, you know for the people that were Walking Around me