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Explore how a WWI training program sought to explain the war and empower soldiers to form their own opinions. This nonfiction work details the War Issues Course, a project designed to raise morale by presenting facts and encouraging discussion rather than propounding a fixed view. It shows how lecturers invited questions, emphasized liberal learning, and linked military duty with democratic ideals.
The book traces the course’s origin, goals, and methods across vocational and collegiate training programs. It explains why the course aimed to present the issues behind the war, how it balanced factual content with thoughtful discussion, and how it positioned military service within a broader liberal education.
- How the course was organized in different training settings and its eight-week structure
- Strategies to encourage student questions and independent opinion formation
- How the program connected democratic values with military service
- Observed outcomes, challenges, and future plans for similar citizenship education
Ideal for readers interested in wartime education, military history, and how education can foster informed citizenship during conflict.
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Plans for some kind of a course on the meaning of the war, designed to enhance the morale of the soldiers being trained under the direction of the Committee, by giving them some understanding of the cause for which we were fighting, had been under discussion since about the first of March, 1918. When it was first suggested to me that I should join the committee in Washington, I proposed some such plan to Dr. Mann and Colonel Clark, and undertook to come to Washington to work it out. My first intention was to arrive on May 1, but it turned out to be impossible for me to get away until the first of June. Mr. Leland Olds, who was to be my assistant, began work on the first of May.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Final Report of the War Issues Course of the Students' Army Training Corps
We 'consciously tried to make the course a presentation of facts rather than merely an emotional appeal. We did not wish to rule out eloquent speaking, but we had the greatest distrust of sham eloquence, feeling that nothing would go so far to discredit our cause as mere denunciation of the enemy unsupported by facts.
We tried to place the emphasis on the positive side, the ideals of democracy and freedom for which we were fighting, rather than on the merely negative aspects - hatred of the Germans and of their barbarous methods of warfare. Stories of atrocities seemed curiously unconvincing to American soldiers and our men seemed to us to respond much more readily to the positive and idealistic aspects of our cause.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a detailed account of a War Issues course created for enlisted men of the US military during World War One. Intended to address the unique challenges of a modern war requiring mass citizen participation, the course's primary goal was to provide soldiers with a detailed historical, economic, and political understanding of the causes and aims of the conflict. The course, and by extension this book, sought to foster morale by replacing blind patriotism and jingoism with a clear understanding of the war's origins and stakes for the young democracy. Rather than offer a narrow, state-approved narrative, the author created a syllabus of lectures and discussions meant to encourage questions, debate, and critical thinking â" all framed within the context of America's democratic ideals. Far from being a dry history lesson, the intent was to help transform enlisted men into thinking soldiers, fully aware of not just the tactics of modern warfare, but also its deeper political and philosophical underpinnings. This book thus serves as a valuable resource for understanding how one of the world's most powerful militaries approached the challenge of indoctrinating citizen soldiers during one of the 20th century's most transformative conflicts. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331670643_0
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