#homefront article of the week: #Advertising in #WWII was big business. Here, Bill Anderson analyzes a US National Association of Manufacturers campaign via a PR lens, finding tacit support of business & free enterprise. Insightful stuff! @elonuniversity doi.org/rthg

#homefront article of the week: Most #WWI histories of the #Jehovah's #Witnesses (at the time, IBSA) focus on the leaders' #espionage charges in the US. Gary Perkins turns to the voices of their #conscientious #objector followers, with immersive results. doi.org/rsjs

On-line and in-person on October 29--check out Professor Sean Kim's talk about the 1950s #Korean #homefront, with loads of illustrations from this often-overlooked context.

#homefront article of the week: Bessie Mikelsons turns to the emotional burdens of #WWI #Australian women via Berth Monash’s letters. Daughter of a famous general, she embraced volunteerism & faced down the war’s emotion-filled pressures. Great insights! doi.org/rrv4

#homefront article of the week: What do condoms have to do with wartime? Anna Inez Bergman reminds us that #WWII belligerents had good reason to reduce #STDs, using official campaigns to try to foster public acceptance of prophylactics. Intriguing history! doi.org/hbn7v3

Happening in June! #WWII #homefront scholars should check out this Relationships and the Second World War conference at King's College, London. Details here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/re…

#homefront article of the week: Aigars Lielbārdis flashes back to #ColdWar #Latvia, where #Folklore scholars faced pervasive ideological restrictions on their research, shaping a generation of academics. Disturbing and fascinating history. @lvuniversity doi.org/rp55

#homefront article of the week: @DanielleWirsans taps into the #WWII archives to explore the #UK #SOE’s #gender biases. #Women made great #spies, but cultural constraints too often trumped operational needs to get in the way of the mission. @History_FSU doi.org/rn63

#homefront article of the week: @Josynyabiko revisits #Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war, using archival & oral history sources to show how the slaughter of a bull by Tanda #women signaled home front economic sabotage against #colonialism. @StellenboschUni doi.org/rngd

Here's a European postdoc opportunity of interest to #homefront scholars--the focus is on the #Soviet home front in #WWII. Details here: sciencespo.fr/histoire/files…

#homefront article of the week: @mozzgi digs into the archives for a disquieting examination of an understudied #ColdWar #KGB practice : #same-sex entrapment of #Western visitors, an insidious tactic of manipulation & coercion in the pre-#Stonewall era. doi.org/rmqc

#homefront article of the week: What was it like to be a neutral inspector of #German #POW camps in #WWI? Beatriz Valverde Contreras captures the difficulties of #Spanish delegates, whose observations provide an amazing vantage point into the camps. doi.org/rkrh

#homefront article of the week: Leigh E. Smith Jr. & Naomi Absalon of the Fort Bliss Museum, introduce the fantastic work of Tom Lea, a #combat #artist for #Life during #WWII. Lea's work movingly captured the experience of warfare for home front readers. shorturl.at/kdbqT

#homefront article of the week: Comic books in the Cold War? @ImaginariaWL flashes back to 1970s Poland, where, yes, comic books functioned as entertainment or as propaganda, depending on who was observing them. A great exploration of political tension. doi.org/rjkz

#homefront article of the week: @pattysambuco checks in with a fascinatingly detailed look at the #Allied occupation of #WWII #Italy & the role of #food exchange between #US occupying forces and local populations. Super archival work here! doi.org/rhz6

#homefront article of the week: How do you mobilize a divided colonial culture that isn’t really into your war? @nrctnrr & Ceren Uçan examine #WWI #Cyprus, showing that #British propagandists recruited via economic incentives, not ideology. Great insights! doi.org/rhbz

Peter Busch looks at #radio #propaganda protocols in #WWII #Germany, showing that #Nazi monitoring of enemy broadcasts was so tightly controlled that intelligence summaries were massaged even before circulation among policymakers. Interesting! @warstudies doi.org/rgdc

#homefront article of the week: @astanley711 assesses the infamous Interrogation Report No. 49, arguing that its depiction of captured #Korean “#comfort girls” in #WWII #Burma inevitably implicates the competing interests of #US, #UK, and #Japanese forces. doi.org/rfhs

#homefront article of the week: @adamarenson’s prosopography of #USCivilWar-era #Black migrants adds qualitative sources to a census in 1864 #Windsor, #Ontario, aiming to reconstruct the lived experiences of an elusive, war-torn population. Great insights! doi.org/rdvx