We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to provide readers with a better understanding of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. Drawing on the Rockford community s letters, speeches, and campus newspaper archives, the authors demonstrate how women claimed the right to be everywhere in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front lines and link their efforts to the rise of feminism and the fight for women s...
We Are a College at War weaves together the World War II experiences of students and faculty at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, to prov...
Mary Weaks-Baxter Christine Bruun Catherine Forslund
We Are a College at War weaves together the individual World War II experiences of students and faculty at the all-female Rockford College (now Rockford University) in Rockford, Illinois, to draw a broader picture of the role American women and college students played during this defining period in U.S. history. It uses the Rockford community's letters, speeches, newspaper stories, and personal recollections to demonstrate how American women during the Second World War claimed the right to be everywhere--in factories and other traditionally male workplaces, and even on the front...
We Are a College at War weaves together the individual World War II experiences of students and faculty at the all-female Rockford College (...
