[OPLINLIST] Dr. Allan Winkler to speak at Literary Arts Festival, McArthur, Ohio

[Erick C. Walker]

*Celebrated historian to speak at Spring Literary Arts Festival*

/A Spring Literary Arts Festival---On the Home Front: Rivets, Rations, & 
Romance/in McArthur, Ohio will feature keynote speaker Allan M. Winkler, 
Ph.D.He will speak at 6 p.m. on April 16 in the cafetorium of the Vinton 
County High School. Dr. Winkler is the author of /Home Front U.S.A.: 
America during World War II (The American History Series).//

/            Dr. Winkler, who earned his Ph.D. from Yale University, is 
Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio.He has 
also taught at Yale University, the University of Oregon, the University 
of Helsinki in Finland, the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, 
and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.An award-winning teacher, he is 
author of 10 books of his own, which include /Franklin D. Roosevelt and 
the Making of Modern America/ and /"To Everything There Is a Season": 
Pete Seeger and the Power of Song/, and co-author of the college 
textbook /The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society/ and the 
high school textbook /America: Pathways to the Present/.

             The theme of Dr. Winkler's presentation will focus on the 
American home front during World War II.Crucial to the Allied victory 
was American war mobilization./Home Front U.S.A.: America during World 
War II/ deals with a host of issues and events in a straightforward way.

             Dr. Winkler's work is laden with intricate details of the 
crucial, but often forgotten, war contributions, serving as a thorough 
reference book for the World War II buff and the novice alike. Rather 
than take a chronological approach, the author examines four broad 
topics in his study: mobilization for war, American society, women and 
ethnic groups, and politics. He then breaks these topics into more 
specific subtopics, such as women in the war, campaigns, popular 
culture, the experiences of blacks and other minorities in the war; the 
plight of Japanese Americans; the popularization of the war effort; 
politics during the war; and the changes that occurred in 
government.This account is a valuable reference for researching the 
civilian aspect of World War II. After considering the material in the 
book, the reader will have a better understanding of the monumental 
changes imposed on the American people during these significant years.

/A Spring Literary Arts Festival---On the Home Front: Rivets, Rations, 
and Romance is sponsored by the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library and the 
Friends of the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library in McArthur, Ohio. 
Events will begin on Monday, April 4, 2011 and the last event will be 
held on Sunday, April 17, 2011. For more information, contact the 
library at 740-596-5691./

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