Notre Dame and the Civil War
9781596298798
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%While many institutions of higher education made great sacrifices during the Civil War, few can boast of the dedication and effort made by the University of Notre Dame.
For four years, Notre Dame gave freely of its faculty and students as soldiers, sent its Holy Cross priests to the camps and battlefields as chaplains and dispatched its sisters to the hospitals as nurses. Though far from the battlefields, the war was ever-present on campus, as Notre Dame witnessed fisticuffs among the student body, provided a home to the children of a famous general, responded to political harassment and tried to keep at least some of its community from the fray. At war's end, a proud Notre Dame welcomed back several bona fide war heroes and became home to a unique veterans' organization.
Bunker Hill and Grissom Air Force Base
9781467115087
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Evansville
9780738534428
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%announcements transformed the region. Several corporations received major defense contracts to manufacture parts and ammunitions, while two new installations were launched: a shipyard to construct Landing Ship Tanks and a factory to manufacture P-47 airplanes. Industrial employment rose dramatically, producing social, economic, and racial tensions as thousands of newcomers poured into a city that lacked adequate housing and public
facilities. The citizens of Evansville persevered, and most workers stayed following the end of the war. One federal official commented that the city--not just its many defense plants--deserved the coveted Army-Navy "E" (for excellence) award.
The Lafayettes
9781467128483
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9781467154116
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Evansville in World War II
9781626196759
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory.
The Evansville Ordnance Plant made 96 percent of all .45-caliber ammunition used in the war, while the Republic Aviation Plant produced more than 6,500 P-47 Thunderbolts - almost half of all P-47s built during the war. At its peak, the local shipyard employed upward of eighteen thousand men and women who forged 167 of the iconic Landing Ship Tank vessels. In this captivating and fast-paced account, University of Evansville historian James Lachlan MacLeod reveals the enormous influence these wartime industries had on the social, economic and cultural life of the city.