Historians on the Homefront: American Propagandists for the Great War

When Woodrow Wilson called on the American people to mobilize for war in April 1917, it was hardly surprising that historians should respond to their one-time colleague. Mobilization produced three organizations staffed by many of America's leading historians. All three organizations, the author shows, viewed as their task the mobilizing of America's intellectual resources in support of Wilson's war policies.

The postwar decade saw an inevitable cooling of wartime passions and a reevaluation...