Lost battalions: the Great War and the crisis of American nationality

Safe for democracy: the lost battalion and the Harlem Hell Fighters

"The great composite American": Theodore Roosevelt and American nationalism, 1880-1917

No black in the rainbow: the origin of the Harlem Hell Fighters, 1911-1917

"The Jews and Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": recruiting the melting pot division, July-December 1917

The politics of ridicule: the 15th New York goes to war, October 1917-May 1918

The slamming of great doors: entering the world of combat, May-September 1918

Home fires burning: political and racial reaction, summer 1918

"Tout le Monde à la Bataille!": the allied offensive begins, September 12-27, 1918

The last long mile: the Hell Fighters at Bellevue Ridge and Sechault, September 26-October 1, 1918

The lost battalion: Whittlesey's command at Charlevaux Mill, October 1-8, 1918

Print the legend: the "lost battalion" as public myth

"No man's land is ours": the Hell Fighters and the last battalion return, February-May 1919

The black and the red: race riots, red scares, and the triumph of reaction, 1919-1924

Unknown soldiers: Charles Whittlesey and Henry Johnson, 1919-1929

"Say, don't you remember...?": public memory, public myth, and the meaning of the war, 1919-1930

The new deal and the renewal of American nationalism, 1930-1941

The bargain renewed: the myth of the "good war" and the memory of the lost battalions, 1938-1965 .