Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (Civil War America)

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Hollihan, Thomas A. "Propagandizing in the interest of war: A rhetorical study of the committee on public information." Southern Journal of Communication 49.3 (1984): 241-257. Across the Pacific Ocean, Filipinos in the United States looked to take advantage of new laws that encouraged family migration for longtime residents, allowing them to assimilate in “Cold War suburbia.” As more Filipinos settled throughout America’s cities, native Filipinos were sent across Asia under the Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea to defend South Korea. Americans once again relied on local labor to operate the military bases that became the “anchor of a Pacific strategy” during the Korean War. “Anti-communism would keep the two nations bound together,” Capozzola writes of the early Cold War years, but “only militarism remained to bind the two nations together” after the Korean War. People Power

This power of America’s empire thus lies in the invisible, compulsory labor required to keep it running. Historian Daniel Immerwahr has argued that Americans have a long history of hiding their empire — its “pointillist” archipelago of military bases, territories, and colonies. But if the American empire is hidden it is because it is everywhere — in the working-class migrants from America’s territories, the welfarist incentives for military service, the local and imported labor needed to operate eight hundred military bases around the globe, the economic and military arrangements between the United States and its allies and client states that provide jobs in a globalized economy. While nationwide war bond campaigns are no longer as vigorous as those during the world conflicts, the U.S. government continues to sell bonds to pay for wars. Now, Series EE bonds, which the Department of the Treasury first issued in 1980 and then reissued as the Series EE Patriot Bond three months after Sept. 11, 2001, help pay for the U.S. government’s ongoing fight against global terrorism. What are my war bonds worth? Bird, William L. Jr; Rubenstein, Harry R. (1998). Design for victory: World War II posters on the American home front. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. When the United States invaded the Philippines and defeated the remnants of the Spanish Empire in August 1898, Washington had no plans for what came next. It got an insurrection — led by none other than Emilio Aguinaldo, the revolutionary Filipino leader the United States hoped would promote its claims of a benevolent invasion.The Shooting Range #62 - Special section at 05:37 discusses the Warbond shop (former monthly format until November 2020). See also

Ukraine to sell 'war bonds' to fund armed forces". BBC News. 1 March 2022 . Retrieved 1 March 2022. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. This pertains to all the authors of the piece, their spouses or partners.

Author David Thomson blended Civil War-era financial and political history to show how the marketing and sale of bonds helped ensure foreign… Despite all these measures, recent research [14] has shown that patriotic motives played only a minor role in investors' decisions to buy these bonds. The legal basis for the refusal of the US Treasury to redeem in gold was the gold clause resolution (Pub. Res. 73–10), dated June 5, 1933. [21] The Supreme Court later held this to be unconstitutional under section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment: [22] Immigrant and minority studies are becoming commonplace in today’s ‘New Military History,’ but rarely do we get such a provocative story as told in The Bonds of War. Dretske has done us all a service by tracing the history of a photograph of five friends who went off to war together. The result is more than a history of their regiment or even of the five men in the photograph—it is a fascinating walk through the tough years of war with men who almost become personal acquaintances.”— Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish and The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid through Mississippi Kimble, James J. Mobilizing the home front: war bonds and domestic propaganda (Texas A&M University Press, 2006)

Nevertheless, don’t expect the market reverberations of the conflict to be immediately obvious. “Depending on what happens,” Cohen and Ewing observe, “the most significant effects on the global economy may manifest themselves only over the long run.” Racial hierarchies created both soldiers and servants for the military. The US Navy enlisted Filipinos as messmen in kitchens and “seamen at ports all over the Pacific,” where they encountered poor pay relative to other members of the working class but saw the United States as a dependable employer. But by World War I, a war ostensibly to end colonialism, military service meant more than a job. Filipinos expected “new rights of citizenship” to accompany enlistment. Witowski, Terrence H. (2003). World War II Poster Campaigns: Preaching Frugality to American Consumers. Journal of Advertising: Volume 32, number 1/spring 2003. pp.69–82. Capozzola grapples with two forms of military service: soldiering and servitude. What, exactly, Capozzola asks, was the difference? Not much, in the case of the Philippines. For Filipinos, military conscription and racialized, low-wage labor were indistinguishable in the ends they served: the demands of the colony. However Filipinos interacted with US global supremacy — whether in the Philippines or the United States — the empire ultimately became a way of life for the colonized: a means of subsistence that they hoped could lead to eventual liberation from its trappings. In other words, democracy’s promise was embedded in empire’s horrors. While war bonds are no longer being sold, old bonds that were sold by the U.S. government to finance the country’s participation in wars may still be worth something today. The value of your war bond will depend on factors such as its series type, its denomination and its issue date.The U.S. Treasury provides a handy tool to calculate the value of your bonds. You’ll need to input the series type (EE, E, I or Savings Notes), the denomination and issue date of the bond. You may also include the bond’s serial number. Then the calculator will spit out the bond’s total value, original issue price, total interest earned and final maturity date. In this intriguing collective biography of five immigrant men, Diana L. Dretske sheds important light on immigrant soldiers in the Civil War and on the Western Theater of the war, two aspects of the Civil War that are traditionally neglected. Lincoln referred to America as ‘the last best hope of earth,’ and the stories of the five men included herein confirm that they understood that better than many of their native-born fellow soldiers. Their story is well told, making for a very rewarding and edifying read.”— Jason H. Silverman , author of Lincoln and the Immigrant and When America Welcomed Immigrants Keshen, Jeff (2004). Saints, sinners, and soldiers: Canada's Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN 0-7748-0923-X.