1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705186303321

Titolo

Examining the IRS's role in implementing and enforcing Obamacare : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, October 9, 2013

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 102 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Health insurance - Taxation - United States

Health care reform - Economic aspects - United States

Legislative hearings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 10, 2014).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

"Serial no. 113-67."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813589603321

Autore

Williams Chad Louis <1976->

Titolo

Torchbearers of democracy : African American soldiers and the era of the First World War / / Chad L. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

979-88-908812-5-0

1-4696-0496-5

0-8078-9935-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 pages)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

940.4/03

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, African American

World War, 1914-1918 - African Americans

African American soldiers - History - 20th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Racism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Citizenship - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service -- The "race question" : the U.S. government and the training experiences of African American soldiers -- The hell of war : African American soldiers in labor and combat -- Les soldats noir : France, Black military service, and the challenges of internationalism and diaspora -- Waging peace : the end of the war and the hope of democracy -- The war at home : African American veterans and violence in the long "red summer" -- Soldiers to "new Negroes" : African American veterans and postwar racial militancy -- Lest we forget : the war and African American soldiers in history and memory.

Sommario/riassunto

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, ""The world must be made safe for democracy."" For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war and postwar years, spanning the streets of



Chicago and the streets of Harlem, from the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front, Chad L. Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in World War I and how they, along with race activists and ordi