World War II and population change in the Maltese context

Warfare is associated with marked social consequences that directly and indirectly will influence the reproductive patterns of the population. The present analysis looks that the population changes that occurred during the Second World War (1939-1945) where the Maltese population was directly involved. The study confirms that one of the consequences of warfare in the Maltese context was a reduction in birth rates that picked up again in the post-war period. The conflict further set a course of attitudes that was to lead to better organisation and betterment of obstetric statistics in the subsequent decades.peer-reviewe

CARTER, ART

Title: Papers, 1932-1988 Description: 22 linear ft. Notes: Afro-American journalist, sports reporter, and managing editor of the Afro-American Newspapers; b. Arthur materials relating to the Afro-American Newspapers, documents concerning Afro-American baseball, the Afro-American press, and organizations with which Carter was affiliated, files on sports, programs, tickets, photographs, and memorabilia. Includes materials relating to Carter\u27s activities at the Washington Afro-American newspaper, the Capital Press Club, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and to his activities as a war correspondent during World War II, reporting about Afro-American troops in North Africa and Italy. Subjects: Afro-American athletes. Afro-American baseball players. Afro-American journalists -- Washington (DC) lcsh Afro-American Newspapers. Afro-Americans -- Washington (DC) -- Newspapers. Afro-Americans in the newspaper industry. Army -- Afro-American troops. Capital Press Club. National Newspaper Publishers Association (US) Sportswriters -- United States. lcsh War correspondents. lcsh Washington Afro-American. Washington (DC) -- Newspapers. United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists. World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Afro-American. Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NUCMC: DCLV96-A74

York Friends 1939-1945

This article deals with the experiences of York Quakers during the Second World War (1939-1945). It points out that in York as elsewhere Quakers had to make difficult choices during these years and tries to explain the reasons for these choices, particularly whether to support the war and, in many cases, whether to serve in the armed forces. The choices made by individuals and the consequences are elaborated. The article sets developments in York against the national background and points out that the national Quaker yearly meeting was held in York in 1941 and 1942

MS – 247: Sinclair – Donaldson Papers

The Sinclair - Donaldson Collection includes photographs and ephemera saved by Connie Sinclair, an African-American W.A.C. member who served during WWII. It consists of sepia-toned and black and white photographs taken during training and enlistment, many captioned. Among the images are official Army photos, including women in a mess hall, the Nurse Corp at Fort Huachuca, and Native American soldiers at the same location. Also contained within this collection are military pins, patches, and insignia, including the Pallas Athene and Sinclair’s dog tag; a W.A.C. song book from 1944; and Sinclair’s Service Recognition certificate. Two Service Club scrapbooks from the 1950’s are contained in this collection from Sinclair’s time as director. Also, family photographs, a family record book, letters, poetry, and newspaper clippings from the 50’s and 80’s.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1219/thumbnail.jp

An Essay on What the Reformation could not Prevent the Identification of Church and ‘Volk’. Three Examples Reconsidered

In this year of REFO 500 the author investigates the question why the Reformation with its ‘theology of sola Scriptura and solus Christus’ could not prevent the successive identification of church and ‘volk’ in history and why it could not prevent the fatal consequences this identification had for the gospel message of reconciliation, the exemplary existence of the church of Christ and the coming of the kingdom of God. Three examples serve as proof for this statement: the attitude of the Anglican Church in England during the second Anglo-Boer War (now called the South African War)(1899-1902); the Lutheran Church in Germany during the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa during the years of apartheid (1948-1994). All three examples reveal an untenable identification of church and ‘volk’, although in varying degrees. How could that happen?   https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.83.1.240

MS – 198: Letters of Leonard G. Roberts

The letters from Leonard (Mike) Roberts to Geraldine Smith Roberts are very much the correspondence of a young, homesick husband in love. The first series of the collection includes five letters from Mike dated 1937 and two notes presumed to be circa the same time, marking the progress of their teenage courtship. The collection resumes in 1944 when Roberts begins his military service. Drafted late in the war, Roberts was not posted overseas until January, 1945. The letters detail his deployment and military life with a hiatus between February 3rd April 6th as Roberts is taken prisoner by the Germans. His letters continue after his release, detailing his mental, physical, and spiritual condition. With a keen awareness of the censors, Mike reports as much as he is able to on the conditions in camp, traveling through France, his desire for the Germans to surrender and the war to end, his treatment and daily life in a military hospital, and events back home in Coffeyville, Kansas. One letter in the collection, dated February 19th, 1945 was sent from Geraldine to Mike. It is as heartsick as Mike’s letters are to her, full of news from home and fantasies about their life after the war. Series 5 contains 3 newspaper clippings that offer information on Mike’s liberation from prison camp and post-war career. The Roberts’ letters offer an intimate look at one of many long distance relationships between deployed men and their wives during the Second World War. This collection has research potential for anyone interested in correspondence, the daily duties and lives of soldiers in WWII France, German prison camps, or recovery in a military hospital. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1207/thumbnail.jp