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1897. .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1863 The reading of the bill was resumed, as follo~s: APPOINTMENT IN THE NAVY. Schedule K.-Wool and manufactures of wool. Raymond Spear, a citizen of Pennsylvania, to be an assistant Ml·. VEST. We-do-not want to go on later this evening. surgeon. Mr. JONES of Arkansas. Does the Senator from Iowa propose PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. to proceed further this afternoon? Lieut. (Junior Grade) John F. Luby, to be a lieutenant. Mr. ALLISON. Being Saturday afteTiloon, and l;Laving com Ensign George W. Logan, to be a lieutenant (junior grade). pleted Schedule J, I move that the Senate proceed to the consider Lieut. Commander Eugene de Forrest Heald, to be a com- ation of executive business. mander. Mr. MANTLE. I ask the Senatorfromlowa to yield tome for Lieut. George P. Colvocoresses, to be a lieutenant-commander. the purpose of asking the present consideration of Senate bill164. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Lewis J. Clark, to be a lieutenant. Mr. ALLISON. I will withhold the motion for a moment. SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY. PUBLIC BUILDING AT BUTTE CITY, MONT. Maurice D. O'Connell, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. Mr. MANTLE. I ask the Senate to p1·oceed to the considera DEPUTY AUDITOR FOR WAR DEPARTMENT. tion of the bill (S. 164) to provide for the construction of a public building at Butte City, Mont. Daniel A. Grosvenor, of Maryland, to be deputy auditor for the · There being no objection, the Senate, as in Committee of the War Department. Whole, proceeded to consider the bill. It directs the Secretary of COMMISSIONERS. -
The Influence of American Discourse on the Mission to Armenia
SWAYED BY HEADLINES OR HARDENED BY EXPERIENCE? THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN DISCOURSE ON THE MISSION TO ARMENIA Rosanne M. Horswill A thesis submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts degree in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences. Chapel Hill 2020 Approved by: Sarah Shields Cemil Aydin Wayne E. Lee ©2020 Rosanne M. Horswill ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Rosanne M. Horswill: Swayed by Headlines or Hardened by Experience? The Influence of American Discourse on the Mission to Armenia (Under the direction of Professor Sarah Shields) In August 1919, President Wilson commissioned the American Military Mission to Armenia to investigate the post-World War I situation in Anatolia and report recommendations to Congress on potential American responsibilities in the region. The President expected the final report, composed by Major General James Harbord, to present impartial observations consistent with the dispassionate language characteristic of military prose. This would have allowed Congress to base its decisions on military judgements rather than on existing partisan reports which favored diplomatic or humanitarian agendas. Though Harbord’s report predominately exhibited the institutional style he adopted as an officer and reflected a hardened worldview shaped over his thirty-year career, his lifetime exposure to American media narratives on Armenians was indelibly present as well. Examining Harbord’s sources reveals that he had absorbed competing public and military narratives that needed reconciliation in his report. I analyzed 23,399 articles from American newspapers, alongside pamphlets published by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and diplomatic reports produced by the Inquiry, to trace discursive trends on Armenians as they evolved in the United States. -
The Contested Making of an American Commemorative Tradition from the Civil War to the Great War
Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University History Dissertations Department of History Spring 5-13-2011 Nationalizing the Dead: The Contested Making of an American Commemorative Tradition from the Civil War to the Great War Shannon T. Bontrager Ph.D. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_diss Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Bontrager, Shannon T. Ph.D., "Nationalizing the Dead: The Contested Making of an American Commemorative Tradition from the Civil War to the Great War." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2011. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_diss/25 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of History at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NATIONALIZING THE DEAD: THE CONTESTED MAKING OF AN AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE TRADITION FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE TO THE GREAT WAR by SHANNON T. BONTRAGER Under the Direction of Dr. Ian Christopher Fletcher ABSTRACT In recent years, scholars have emphasized the importance of collective memory in the making of national identity. Where does death fit into the collective memory of American identity, particularly in the economic and social chaos of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did death shape the collective memory of American national identity in the midst of a pluralism brought on by immigration, civil and labor rights, and a transforming culture? On the one hand, the commemorations of public figures such as Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt constructed an identity based on Anglo-Saxonism, American imperialism, and the ―Strenuous Life.‖ This was reflected in the burial of American soldiers of the Spanish American and Philippine American wars and the First World War. -
1942 4851 Senate
1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE 4851 3004. Also, petition of Alma Sanders, of struggling for the maintenance of justice terial at Government-owned esta·blishments; McL<mth Methodist Church, and 51 others, and human liberty. Let Thy Divine and for other purposes; asking for legislation which will provide the compassion be with the suffering, the S. 2469. An act for the- relief of William best protection for the men in our Army ·and Edward Fleming; Navy against the influence of vice and alco sorrowing, and the dying in all lands and S. 2470. An act for the relief of Eileen Col holic liquors; to the Committee on Military with the homeless refugees driven forth lins Treacy; · Affairs. by cruelty and oppression. S. 2490. An act to amend th Coast Guard 3005. By Mr. McGREGOR: Petition of Edna Strengthen and protect all those who, Auxiliary antl Reserve Act of 1941 (Public M. Souers, of New Philadelphia, and several at home or abroad, are serving this Law, 8, 77th Cong.), as amended by section hundred residents of Central Ohio, urging country or our Allies, that they may be 10 of th.e act entitled "An act to amend and the enactment. of legislation prohibiting the preserved evermore in all perils. clarify certain acts pertaining to the Coast diversion of grains, useful for foods so neces Guard, and for other purposes," approved sary to the maintenance of health standards Hasten the advent of a righteous and July 11, 1941 (Public Law, 166, 77th Cong.); of our Nation and of our Allies, for the manu lasting peace and the establishment of and facture of liquors which are deleterious to Thy kingdom. -
Tomorrow, the World the Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy in World War II Stephen Alexander Wertheim
Tomorrow, the World The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy in World War II Stephen Alexander Wertheim Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2015 © 2015 Stephen Wertheim All rights reserved ABSTRACT Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy in World War II Stephen Wertheim This dissertation contends that in 1940 and 1941 the makers and shapers of American foreign relations decided that the United States should become the world’s supreme political and military power, responsible for underwriting international order on a global scale. Reacting to the events of World War II, particularly the Nazi conquest of France, American officials and intellectuals concluded that henceforth armed force was essential to the maintenance of liberal intercourse in international society and that the United States must possess and control a preponderance of such force. This new axiom constituted a rupture from what came before and a condition of possibility of the subsequent Cold War with the Soviet Union and of U.S. world leadership after the Soviet collapse. Thus this dissertation argues against the teleological interpretations of two opposing sets of scholarship. The first set, an orthodox literature in history and political science, posits a longstanding polarity in American thinking between “internationalism” and “isolationism.” So conceived, internationalism favored global political-military supremacy from the first, needing only to vanquish isolationism in the arena of elite and popular opinion. The second, revisionist camp suggests the United States sought supremacy all along, driven by the dynamics of capitalism and the ideology of exceptionalism. -
General Leonard Wood and the US Army in the Southern
University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Doctoral Dissertations University of Connecticut Graduate School 5-6-2013 “The Right Sort of White Men”: General Leonard Wood and the U. S. Army in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1906 Omar H. Dphrepaulezz University of Connecticut, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Dphrepaulezz, Omar H., "“The Right Sort of White Men”: General Leonard Wood and the U. S. Army in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1906" (2013). Doctoral Dissertations. 59. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/59 “The Right Sort of White Men”: General Leonard Wood and the U. S. Army in the Southern Philippines, 1898-1906 Omar Hassan Dphrepaulezz University of Connecticut, 2013 This dissertation examines an encounter with the Muslim world within the context of U.S. overseas expansion from 1898 to 1906 and the transformation of white masculinity in the United States from the 1870s to the 1920s. In 1906, in the southernmost portion of the Philippines, the U.S. military encountered grassroots militant resistance. Over one thousand indigenous Muslim Moros on the island of Jolo, in the Sulu archipelago, occupied a dormant volcanic crater and decided to oppose American occupation. This meant defying their political leaders, who accommodated the Americans. These men and women, fighting in the defense of Islamic cultural and political autonomy, produced the spiritual, intellectual, and ideological justification for anti-imperial resistance. In this dissertation, I examine how underlying cultural assumptions and categories simplified definitions of race and gender so that American military officials could justify the implementation of U.S. -
Leonard Wood and the American Empire
LEONARD WOOD AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE A Dissertation by JAMES HERMAN PRUITT II Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY May 2011 Major Subject: History Leonard Wood and the American Empire Copyright 2011 James Herman Pruitt II LEONARD WOOD AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE A Dissertation by JAMES HERMAN PRUITT II Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved by: Chair of Committee, Brian M. Linn Committee Members, R.J.Q. Adams Charles Hermann H.W. Brands Head of Department, Walter L. Buenger May 2011 Major Subject: History iii ABSTRACT Leonard Wood and the American Empire. (May 2011) James Herman Pruitt II, B.A., King College; M.A., The University of Kentucky Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Brian M. Linn During the ten years following the Spanish American War (1898 to 1908), Major General Leonard Wood served as the primary agent of American imperialism. Wood was not only a proconsul of the new American Empire; he was a symbol of the empire and the age in which he served. He had the distinction of directing civil and military government in Cuba and the Philippines where he implemented the imperial policies given to him by the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. In Cuba, he labored to rebuild a state and a civil society crippled by decades of revolutionary ferment and guided the administration’s policy through the dangerous channels of Cuban politics in a way that satisfied – at least to the point of avoiding another revolution – both the Cubans and the United States. -
Restoring Order: the Us Army Experience with Occupation
RESTORING ORDER: THE US ARMY EXPERIENCE WITH OCCUPATION OPERATIONS, 1865–1952 by LOUIS A. DIMARCO B.S., United States Military Academy, 1981 M.M.A.S., United States Army Command and Staff College, 1995 M.A., Salve Regina University, 1999 AN ABSTRACT OF A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2010 Abstract This dissertation examines the influence of the US Army experience in military government and occupation missions on occupations conducted during and immediately after World War II. The study concludes that army occupation experiences between the end of the Civil War and World War II positively influenced the occupations that occurred during and after World War II. The study specifically examines occupation and government operations in the post-Civil War American South, Cuba, the Philippines, Mexico, post-World War I Germany, and the major occupations associated with World War II in Italy, Germany, and Japan. Though historians have examined individual occupations, none has studied the entirety of the American army‘s experience with these operations. This dissertation finds that significant elements of continuity exist between the occupations, so much so that by the World War II period it discerns a unique American way of conducting occupation operations. Army doctrine was one of the major facilitators of continuity. An additional and perhaps more important factor affecting the continuity between occupations was the army‘s institutional culture, which accepted occupation missions as both important and necessary. An institutional understanding of occupation operations developed over time as the army repeatedly performed the mission or similar nontraditional military tasks. -
T\L RECORD- SEN ATE
1921. CONGRESSION _._t\L RECORD- SEN ATE. 2541 SENATE. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. FnmaY, February 4, 1921. The amendment was agreed to. (Legislatil:e day of Wednesday, February 2, 1921.) The VICE PRESIDENT. The next amendment will be stated. The ASSISTANT SECRETARY. On page 2, line 13, after the The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m .., on the expiration of the word "pound," insert the words "except rice cleaneu for use recess. in the manufacture of canned foods," so as to read : QUAP~W I~DIAN LANDS. Rice, cleaned, 2 cents per pound, except rice cleaned for use In the manufacture of canned foods . .1\lr. CURTIS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to lay aside temporarily the unfinished business for the purpose of tak The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the ing up the bill (S. 4879) to amend section 1 of the act of Con amendment. gress upproved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. L., p. 907), to extend The amendment was agreed to. restrictions against the alienation of lands allotted to and in The VICE PRESIDENT. The next amendment will be stated. herited by certain Quapaw Indians, and for other purposes. The AssisTANT SECRETARY. On page 3, after line 13, insert: The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? 14. Fresh or frozen beef, veal, mutton, lamb, and pork, 2 .cents per pound. Meats oi all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specJally pro Mr. McCIDIDER. I shall not object at this time unless !t vided for herein, 25 per cent ad valorem. -
^Tbe 1Bowtt3er
^Tbe 1bowtt3er . Published by ,the , . CADETS of the United States Military Academy WEST POINT, NEW YORK LIBRARY U.S. M.A. of 8;g.< Army FRANKLIN PRINTING CO. PHILADELPHIA 1897 ^* «^W &?• V7* «47* «^* ^* "^ /fe i£W 0ld (gray ZBatta&on." jf jf K1 sf jf jf jf TDL £. flMlftars Bcaoem^ meet IPoint, mew ISorfe, Boarfc of Disitors, June, 1896. Appointed by the President of the United States: i. Honorable M. E. INGALLS, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2. Doctor JOSEPH D. BRYANT, New York, N. Y. 3. Honorable T. H. CLARK, Montgomery, Alabama. 4. General JAMES H. WILSON (President), Wilmington, Delaware. 5. Honorable HIRAM C. GARWOOD, ........ Bastrop, Texas. 6. Professor W. WHITMAN BAILEY (Secretary), . Providence, R. I. 7. Honorable ALBERT W. GILCHRIST, Punta Gorda, Florida. Appointed by the President of the Senate : 8. Honorable GEORGE GRAY, Wilmington, Delaware. 9. Honorable WILLIAM J. SEWELL (Vice-President), . Camden, New Jersey. Appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives : 10. Honorable GEORGE W. STEELE, Marion, Indiana. n. Honorable ROBERT G. COUSINS, Tipton, Iowa. 12. Honorable GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, New York, N. Y. Superintendent Colonel O. H. ERNST, Lieutenant-Colonel, Corps of Engineers. /IDilftars Staff. Captain WILBER E. WILDER, Fourth Cavalry, Adjutant of the Military Academy and of the Post; Recruiting Officer; Commanding Band and Detachment of Field Music. Captain WILLIAM F. SPURGIN, Twenty-first Infantry, Treasurer of the Military Academy, and Quartermaster and Commissary of Cadets. Captain JOHN B. BELLINGER, Assistant Quartermaster of U. S. A., Quarter master of the Military Academy and of the Post; Disbursing Officer. First Lieutenant BARRINGTON K. WEST, Sixth Cavalry, Commissary and Treas urer ; in charge of the Post Exchange.