CIVIL WAR SLANG
This colorful 19th-century phrase, meaning to experience combat for the first time, describes what untrained Union soldiers surprisingly did not flee from
What is "seeing the elephant"?
Historian John Higham borrowed this specific term from anthropologist Clifford Geertz to describe the "corporate feeling of oneness" that defined the earliest, unquestioned American social relationships
What is a primordial relationship?
The advent of this nationwide political change meant that by the 1930s, full citizenship was no longer exclusively male, and men no longer served as the sole representatives of their family units in the public arena
What is universal female suffrage?
n his famous memoir With the Old Breed, this Marine combat veteran wrote that he credited his physical and mental survival on Peleliu to his unit's discipline, esprit de corps, and tough training
Who is Eugene B. Sledge?
The intense conformity instilled by the new 1920s youth culture helped young Americans fit into a society that was transitioning from the absolute morals of Victorianism to the relativistic values of this cultural movement
What is Modernism?