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War on the Homefront:
Connecticut Goes to War, 1860-1945


Suggestions for further reading

Harold J. Bingham. History of Connecticut, Volume II. New York and West Palm Beach, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1962. Especially Chapter XXX: “Citizen and Soldier, World War I.”

John W. Jeffries. Testing the Roosevelt Coalition: Connecticut Society and Politics in the Era of World War II. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

Forrest Morgan, ed. Connecticut as a Colony and as a State, or One of the Original Thirteen, Volume IV. Hartford: The Publishing Society of Connecticut, 1904. Especially Chapter I: “The Crisis,” II: “The Call to Arms,” III: “The Days of Strife,” IV: “At the Close of the War,” and VIII: “The Spanish War and the Constitutional Convention.”

Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion. Hartford, Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1889.

Patricia C. Thorstenson. Manchester Remembers: The Home Front at War, 1941-1945. Manchester, Grames Press, 1995.

Albert E. Van Dusen. Connecticut. New York, Random House, 1961. Especially Chapter XIII: “The Civil War Era,” XV: “Connecticut During World War I,” and XX: “Connecticut, an ‘Arsenal of Democracy,’ 1939-45.”

Barbara McLean Ward, ed. Produce and Conserve, Share and Play Square: The Grocer and the Consumer on the Home-front Battlefield during World War II. Portsmouth, N.H., Strawbery Banke Museum and University Press of New England, 1994.

Link to other essays in this Journey:

>> Introduction: Connecticut Goes to War, 1860-1945
>>
The Civil War, 1861-1865
>> The Spanish-American War, 1898-1899
>> World War I, 1917-1919
>> World War II, 1941-1945

>> Guideposts