Readings and Discussion Schedule
Spring 2016

NOTE:   The discussion questions for each class will usually be posted a few days  prior to the class for which they are required.  

**IMPORTANT NOTE ON VISUAL SOURCES**

January 5:        Introduction 

• 1914-1918 Casualty Figures - for course reference

• Ayers, "A Statistical Summary..."(1919) -for course reference

January 12:    Causation and Interpretation

• Barnes, The Revisionist Position (1926)

• Fay, The Origins of The World War (1930)

• Angell, The Great Illusion (1910)

• Fischer, Germany's Aims (1961)

• Brose, pp. 3-41

• Discussion questions

January 19:        Home Front and Total War (societal level)

• Ontario's Reaction to the War

• Creel, Selling War (1920)

• Arthur Marwick, ...the German homefront....

• Marwick, "The Impact of the First World War on British Society" (pdf)

• Images of the Homefront

• Defence of the Realm Act (1914)

• The U.S. Sedition Act (1918)

• Jay Winter, On Total War

• Movie:  Total War

• Brose, pp. 80-83; 146-56

• Discussion questions
   

January 26:    The Soldier Experience:    What Remains Today

• Service File for George Broome

• The George Broome Collection in CLIP

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Lest We Forget Information Package (abbreviations and how to read a service file)

• Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War (overview of record types and sources)

• The C.E.F. Paper Trail ( a guide to service record types)

• Instructions and Questions

February 2:    Propaganda and National Image

• The Bryce Report (1915)

• What Germany Stands For (1918)

• Italian Propaganda in the Great War (2002) (pdf)

• Words as Weapons (1978) (pdf)

• Essential Victims:  Civilians and the War

• Vera Brittain, ...on the atrocities of war...

• Propaganda:  Images of Nationalism

• World War l Propaganda...Arkansas  pdf.

• Discussion questions

February 9:  Soldier Experience (1)

• Paul Fussell, ...the trenches...

• Paul Fussell ...the trench scene...

• John Keegan, ...on too few doctors....

• Foot, "Rum a Combat Motivator"

• Seigfried Sassoon, ...a raiding party...

• Soldier Newspapers...(2010) (pdf)

• Recruitment:  The Soldier Imagined

• Images: The Soldiers' Reality 

• Brittain:  Circumstances of Roland's Death

• An Early Somme Battlefield

• "A" Company's Report, November 1, 1918

• Movie:  Slaughter

• Discussion Questions

February 16:  Home Front and Total War (individual level) - Article Review is Due

• Jay Winter, The Lusitania and Total War

• Arthur Marwick, ...participation...

• White Feathers and Wounded Men...(1997) (pdf)

• Soldiers:  The Drive to Recruit

• Children and the War

• A Message To The Boys and Girls of Canada (1918)

• Vera Brittain, ...the agony letter...

• German Youth Literature in the First World War (pdf)

• Financing the War

• Discussion questions

March 1:      Women and War 

• Gail Braybon, Women's Contribution to the War Effort

• Vera Brittain, ...circumstances of Roland's death...

• Mothers, Marraines, and Prostitutes...(1997)  (pdf)

• Khaki Girls, VADs, and Tommy's Sisters...(1997)  (pdf)

• The Canadian 123rd Recruiting Leaflet

• Punch Magazine, The Humour of War

•  "What Did You do In The War, Mommy?"

• Movie:    Stalemate

• Discussion questions

March 8:    Women and War

• Win the War Suggestions and Recipes

• Editorial, "Social Reactions of the War"(1918)

• Women:  Myth, Symbol, and Reality

• War Letters From Women

• Medical Women in the First World War...(1993) (pdf)

• French Volunteer Nursing (1996)  (pdf)

• Discussion questions

March 15:        The Literary and Creative War

• Isaac Rosenberg, Break of Day in the Trenches

• Rupert Brooke, The War Sonnets

• Wilfred Owen, Poems

• Seigfried Sassoon, Poems

• H.G.Wells, ...loneliness and death....

• Buitenhuis on H.G. Wells

• Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (excerpts)

• Movie: Slaughter

• Discussion Questions

March 22:        Shell Shock and Regeneration

• Rivers, The Repression of War Experience
  

• Seigfried Sassoon, Statement Against War (1917)
  

• Winter, "Shell Shock...." (2000)
  

• Self Deception and Survival...(2006) (pdf)
  

• Movie:  Regeneration
  

• Movie reviews
  

• Discussion Questions

March 29:    Regeneration - Research Essay is Due

• Movie:    Regeneration  

• Letters From the Front

• Newfoundland Regiment:  The Somme

• Movie:  I Remain Your Loving Son

• Discussion questions

April 5:  Remembrance, Memory, and the Aftermath         

• Jay Winter, World War One Today

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: France

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Ypres

• Images of Remembrance

• McCrae, In Flanders Fields

• WWI Cemeteries (look at La Chaudiere (F),  Tyne Cot (B),  Serre Road #2 (F), Langamark (B), Zivy Crater (F), and Manitoba Cemetery (F) )

• Huppauf, ...effects of war...

• The Social Unrest of the Soldier  (1921) pdf.

• Discussion questions

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