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A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee during the Great War, 1917–1918

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A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War examines the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I.

A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War examines the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I.

Pro-war patriots considered Milwaukee's loyalties doubly suspect because of its large German-American population and strong Socialist Party. Consequently, Milwaukeeans endured intense efforts, some bordering on the paranoid or absurd, to enforce 100 percent Americanism and redeem the city's reputation.

But the hand-wringing was unnecessary, as city residents exceeded every government wartime demand. Other developments heightened the intensity of this “crowded hour.” Simmering ethnic tensions, skyrocketing inflation, as well as loftier questions regarding the meaning of American citizenship or the impact of a growing government bureaucracy affected every aspect of people's lives.

Patriotic women stepped into male-dominated occupations to meet labor demands; at war's end, many reluctantly returned to traditional gender roles. Furthermore, the war advanced three long-debated social crusades: women's suffrage, prohibition, and anti-prostitution/venereal disease efforts.

Capping things off, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic killed more than 1,100 Milwaukeeans and 50 million people world-wide.

BOOK ISBN	9781634990226
FORMAT	234 x 156 mm
BINDING	Paperback
PAGES	240 pages
PUBLICATION DATE	15 June 2017
TERRITORY	World
ILLUSTRATIONS	24 black-and-white photographs

Kevin Abing was born and raised on a farm in southwest Wisconsin, though he and his wife Laura have resided in Milwaukee for 30 years. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from Marquette University in Milwaukee and has worked as an archivist at the Milwaukee County Historical Society for nearly ten years. Inspiration for this book stemmed from his work at the Historical Society where he reviewed the papers of Daniel Hoan and the contentious relationship between pro- and anti-war factions.

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Pro-war patriots considered Milwaukee's loyalties doubly suspect because of its large German-American population and strong Socialist Party. Consequently, Milwaukeeans endured intense efforts, some bordering on the paranoid or absurd, to enforce 100 percent Americanism and redeem the city's reputation.

But the hand-wringing was unnecessary, as city residents exceeded every government wartime demand. Other developments heightened the intensity of this “crowded hour.” Simmering ethnic tensions, skyrocketing inflation, as well as loftier questions regarding the meaning of American citizenship or the impact of a growing government bureaucracy affected every aspect of people's lives.

Patriotic women stepped into male-dominated occupations to meet labor demands; at war's end, many reluctantly returned to traditional gender roles. Furthermore, the war advanced three long-debated social crusades: women's suffrage, prohibition, and anti-prostitution/venereal disease efforts.

Capping things off, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic killed more than 1,100 Milwaukeeans and 50 million people world-wide.

BOOK ISBN	9781634990226
FORMAT	234 x 156 mm
BINDING	Paperback
PAGES	240 pages
PUBLICATION DATE	15 June 2017
TERRITORY	World
ILLUSTRATIONS	24 black-and-white photographs

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