Publication Date
2023
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
First Advisor
Feurer, Rosemary
Degree Name
Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
Legacy Department
Department of History
Abstract
This dissertation traces the role of the State Council of Defense and Women’s Committee as Illinois’s wartime state between 1917-1918. Centered around dynamics of voluntarism, pageantry, and how the state negotiated the use of coercion in mobilization for war, the project draws heavily on the State Council and Women’s Committee records at the State Archives in Springfield, Illinois. Wartime mobilization in Illinois—and nationally in 1917—relied on a complex combination of federal messaging and resources working in concert with state and local forces who were supportive of the Wilson administration’s war effort. Bringing together disparate prewar communities, the State Council and Women’s Committee involved public-private partnerships, as well as buy-in at the County level to foster mobilization and to operate a constant war-focused pageantry statewide. The project found that, through its partnerships and organizational model, the State Council and Women’s Committee in Illinois rapidly increased the wartime state’s capacity to mobilize the public and resources, and they did so far more effectively than many Council and Committee systems nationwide.
Recommended Citation
Fulton, Joshua David, "Performance Patriotism: The State Council of Defense, The Illinois Women’s Committee, and The Role of The State In World War I Illinois" (2023). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 7318.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-thesesdissertations/7318
Extent
372 pages
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
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In Copyright
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Media Type
Text
