#homefront article of the week: Yusung Kim offers a great case study of wartime symbol use by showing how #US #ColdWar propaganda agencies used science exhibitions & displays in #Japan as #propaganda to encode the geopolitical context. Interesting work!

#homefront article of the week: #WWII #WashingtonDC was an inviting target for #Axis attacks. Here, Anne Dobberteen recovers the lost role of the women of the Antiaircraft Artillery Command, whose labor challenged gender roles & protected the capital city.

#homefront article of the week: @JulieVGottlieb revisits the so-called Phoney War in the UK (1938-40), using impressive primary data showing that the psychological impacts of the conflict manifested in nervous disorders & even a wave of “crisis suicides.”

#homefront article of the week: How do you prepare teenaged American girls for a #ColdWar? Brian Rouleau argues that romantic comic books were an essential vehicle for doing so, with vital messages about courtship & sexuality during national mobilization.

#homefront article of the week: @WendyLRouse uncovers the intriguing role of militarized self-defense training for US women during #WWII, complete with gender-based perceptions and even racist depictions of potential attackers. Fascinating history! @SJSU

#homefront article of the week: The 1960s #Nigerian Civil War went far beyond battlefields, with secessionist Biafrans adopting an in-depth visual propaganda to define a new national identity. Rebecca Wolff has the intriguing details. @christophernewportu

#homefront article of the week: @HarryMerritt argues that the #USCivilWar’s Lost Cause narrative wasn’t unique. Post #WWII narratives of Latvians who’d fought in German-led legions show telltale signs of similar mythmaking. Insightful work! @uvmhistory

#homefront article of the week: #ColdWar rhetoric was obsessed with covert #sexuality. Here, Jennifer L. Lambe charts transnational narratives of the #CubanRevolution, finding a curious overlap between sexual panic and ideological panic. A smart analysis.

#homefront article of the week: Zhang Yun takes us back to #WWII #China to look at the gendered role of female nurses. Studying a variety of wartime media, the study concludes that the women defiantly asserted their agency, subjectivity & self-empowerment.

#homefront article of the week: Robert Dean recovers the 1914-15 staging of _Europe_, a ballet about the ongoing Great War. This London melodrama included a decoupage map of Europe from which nationalistic characters performed. Great archival work.

#homefront article of the week: Bennett Parten digs into Cyrena Stone’s #USCivilWar-era diary, arguing that its wide-ranging observations support a growing scholarly recognition that battlefront & home front are “intwined spaces.” @BennettParten

#homefront article of the week: The curious intersection of #wartime, cartography, & #women grounds this #WWII study, which maps the transformation of mapmaking via the experiences of 3 of the women who were there. Great recovered history. @KSU_CollegeofAS

#homefront article of the week: Julie R. Estlick checks in with an intriguing study of the boiler suit—spied recently on the Barbie movie set but made famous by #WWII’s Rosie the Riveter and ever since a complex feminist symbol. Fascinating! @CUBoulderCMCI

#homefront article of the week: Scott Birdwise takes us into #WWII London through the view of wartime documentarian Humphrey Jennings, who affirmed the people's spirited resistance via imagery of movement & rhythm. An insightful analysis. @TOFilmSchool

#homefront article of the week: #WWI economic pressures lead to federal interventions in housing reform. But as Maia Silber shows in this deep archival study of wartime Philadelphia, such measures fueled longer-term debates among tenants & advocacy groups.

#homefront article of the week: Federica Ferlanti focuses on women’s activism in #WWII China, uncovering the ambitious work of the Women’s Advisory Committee, which used wartime as a rationale for advancing women’s social & economic prospects. @cardiffuni

#homefront article of the week: How do you run a PR campaign for Atlas ICBMs? Rebecca Berens Matzke has the answer, showing how the US military used #Midwestern #ColdWar publicity to foster deterrence & encourage acceptance of the new weapon. @riponcollege

#homefront article of the week: For Indian nationalists, #WWII created tensions between anti-colonialist aims and the fight against fascism. Here, Rotem Geva analyzes how those tensions emerged in the journalism & nonfiction of 1942. A thoughtful piece!

#homefront article of the week: Do you think of anarchists as anti-militarist? Here, @hda_brown offers a robust counterexample from #TheSpanishCivilWar, showing how militarized symbols helped foster an image of the antifascist warrior. Fascinating stuff!

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