Review of \u27Work Or Fight!\u27 Race, Gender, And The Draft In World War One By Gerald E. Shenk

This is a review of Gerald E. Shenk\u27s \u27Work Or Fight!\u27 Race, Gender, And The Draft In World War One By Gerald E. Shenk

Finding a Place for World War I in American History 1914-1918

World War I has occupied an uneasy place in the American public and political consciousness.1 In the 1920s and 1930s, controversies over the war permeated the nation’s cultural and political life, influencing memorial culture and governmental policy. Interest in the war, however, waned considerably after World War II, a much larger and longer war for the United States. Despite a plethora of scholarly works examining nearly every aspect of the war, interest in the war remains limited even among academic historians. In many respects, World War I became the \u27forgotten war\u27 because Americans never developed a unifying collective memory about its meaning or the political lessons it offered. Americans remembered the Civil War as the war that ended slavery and saved the union, World War II as \u27the good war\u27 that eliminated fascist threats in Europe and the Pacific, the Cold War as a struggle for survival against a communist foe, and Vietnam as an unpopular war. By comparison, World War I failed to find a stable place in the national narrative.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/history_books/1040/thumbnail.jp

Call to Duty: Women and World War I

Watching loved ones depart, uncertain if they would return—this was an experience that women around the world shared during the Great War. The continual scene of women sending men off to fight was troubling; paradoxically, it was also a familiar, traditional ritual that reinforced gender roles within western societies

Review of America\u27s Great War: World War I And The American Experience By Robert Zieger

This is a review of Robert Zieger\u27s America\u27s Great War: World War I And The American Experience

North America

These demographic shifts are just one example of how considering North America as an entity during the First World War offers the alluring possibility of breaking away from the strictures of the normal nation-state approach to studying the war, presenting an opportunity to consider the war\u27s regional and global dimensions. Uncovering the full scope of \u27North America\u27s War\u27 requires evaluating Britain\u27s dominant position in the global political economy, North America\u27s contribution to the fighting, international relations within North America and how North American-based events and initiatives affected the course of the war and the peace.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/history_books/1010/thumbnail.jp

Review of Harlem\u27s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I By Stephen L. Harris

This is a review of Stephen L. Harris\u27 Harlem\u27s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I

The Inconsistency of Virginia\u27s Execution of the NPDES Permit Program: The Foreclosure of Citizen Attorneys General From State and Federal Courts

The above mentioned goals and policies of the Clean Water Act suggest that Congress intended to create a partnership between the federal government, state governments, and the public to help abate pollution of the nation\u27s waters. This intent is illustrated by the fact that permits issued to dischargers of pollutants into navigable waters can be issued by either the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state agency. Unfortunately, the goal of public involvement is lost in the confusion caused by this poorly drafted and astonishingly imprecise statute. The resulting inconsistent system forecloses some members of the public from participating in segments of the pollution abatement process. Virginia\u27s implementation of the Clean Water Act serves as a prime example of this hidden inconsistency

An Open Source Pattern Recognition Toolbox for MATLAB

Pattern recognition and machine learning are becoming integral parts of algorithms in a wide range of applications. Different algorithms and approaches for machine learning include different tradeoffs between performance and computation, so during algorithm development it is often necessary to explore a variety of different approaches to a given task. A toolbox with a unified framework across multiple pattern recognition techniques enables algorithm developers the ability to rapidly evaluate different choices prior to deployment. MATLAB is a widely used environment for algorithm development and prototyping, and although several MATLAB toolboxes for pattern recognition are currently available these are either incomplete, expensive, or restrictively licensed. In this work we describe a MATLAB toolbox for pattern recognition and machine learning known as the PRT (Pattern Recognition Toolbox), licensed under the permissive MIT license. The PRT includes many popular techniques for data preprocessing, supervised learning, clustering, regression and feature selection, as well as a methodology for combining these components using a simple, uniform syntax. The resulting algorithms can be evaluated using cross-validation and a variety of scoring metrics to ensure robust performance when the algorithm is deployed. This paper presents an overview of the PRT as well as an example of usage on Fisher's Iris dataset

Review of Brothers To The Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives On The African American Militia And Volunteers, 1865-1917 By Bruce Glasrud

This is a review of Bruce Glasrud\u27s Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers