Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1999, 1920). 2. Information in this paragraph, and the next two, is based on my interview with Milton and Ruth Brackbill, October 14, 1987, Sarasota, Florida. 3. Gyan Prakash, “Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism,” American Historical Review 99 (1994): 1475–1490. 4. Christopher Capozzola, “The Only Badge Needed Is Your Patriotic Fervor: Vigilance, Coercion, and the Law in World War I America,” Journal of American History, 88 (March 2002): 1356. 5. The only general history of the World War I draft in the past fifty years is the excellent John Whiteclay Chambers II, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (New York: The Free Press, 1987). See also, John Whiteclay Chambers II, “Decision to Draft,” Magazine of History 17 (October 2002): 26–33. 6. The most complete description of this system is, Enoch Crowder, Second Report of the Provost Marshal General on the Operations of the Selective Service System through December 1918 (Washington: GPO, 1919). 7. Enoch Crowder, Final Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the Operations of the Selective Service System to July 15, 1919 (Washington: GPO, 1920), 9. 8. Enoch Crowder, Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the First Draft under the Selective Service Act of 1917 (Washington: GPO, 1918), 28. 9. Selective Service General Rules and Regulations, December 1917, Records of the Selective Service System, 1917–1919, Historical Files, Box 317, RG 163, National Records Center (NRC), College Park, MD.
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