Reviews
"This well-researched study gives weight to historians' common contention that Americans "simply wanted to forget the war.""--B. T. Browne, CHOICE, "Kimberly Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail the American cultural memory of the Great War before 1941. Using understudied sources such as pulp fiction and abandoned state history projects, she deftly shows how the act of 'forgetting' the war was based on remembering it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading."--Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics and Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill, "Kimberly Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail the American cultural memory of the Great War before 1941. Using understudied sources, such as pulp fiction and abandoned state history projects, she deftly shows how the act of 'forgetting' the war was based on remembering it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading."--Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics and Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill, " Remembering World War I in America is most impressive in Licursi's extensive archival research on state histories and her investigations into the factual data of publishing figures."--David Rennie, American Literary Realism, "This well-researched study gives weight to historians' common contention that Americans "simply wanted to forget the war.""--B. T. Browne, Choice, "By helping us to better understand today the historical obscurity of World War I in America, Lamay Licursi seeks to erase a past of erasure--to replace forgetting with remembering."--Trevor Dodman, First World War Studies, "I am impressed by the thoroughness with which Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi has combed through archival records related to state-level remembrance projects. And I admire (and regard as a model) the way she grounds her assertions about cultural influence in quantifiable specifics--in inventories of library holdings, recommendations in library journals, and the like."--Steven K. Trout, professor of English at the University of South Alabama and author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941, "An interesting and thoughtful look at how national memory is constructed."--A. A. Nofi, Strategy Page, "Kimberly Lamay Licursi explores with nuance and detail the American cultural memory of the Great War before 1941. Using understudied sources, such as pulp fiction and abandoned state history projects, she deftly shows how the act of 'forgetting' the war was based on remembering it in divergent ways. Fascinating and timely reading."--Stephen R. Ortiz, professor of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics and Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill "I am impressed by the thoroughness with which Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi has combed through archival records related to state-level remembrance projects. And I admire (and regard as a model) the way she grounds her assertions about cultural influence in quantifiable specifics--in inventories of library holdings, recommendations in library journals, and the like."--Steven K. Trout, professor of English at the University of South Alabama and author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941, "Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi's Remembering World War I in America is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on memory of the Great War."--Mark Folse, H-War, "The author has done an impressive amount of research in compiling this study, and all those readers interested in how Americans once remembered the Great War will find much to enjoy in its pages."--Roger D. Cunningham, Journal of America's Military Past, " Remembering World War I in America furnishes some sound explanations for why America's second experience with total war--the Civil War being the first--one which saw the nation making an indispensable contribution to victory and emerging as a global power, found so little purchase in the imagination of its citizens."--Robert Teigrob, American Historical Review, " Remembering World War I in America provides a broad critique of the most significant American literary writings, pulp fiction, and movies about World War I produced during the interwar years."--Jeffery S. Underwood, Journal of American History, "Lamay Licursi's useful work should be consulted by military, political, and social historians interested in America's participation in World War I and the interwar years."--Jeffery S. Underwood, Journal of American History
