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First published on May 18, 2007, doi:10.1177/1097184X06299041

Men and Masculinities 2008;10:621.

A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2008

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Three Generations of Yankees: Masculinity, Memory, and War in an American Family, 1842-1975

Deborah Gorham*

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dgorham{at}ccs.carleton.ca.


  Abstract
This paper addresses the connection between war and masculinity through a case study of three generations of men in one family-- the author’s own. Gorham’s great-grandfather, Charles Edward Gorham, born in 1842, served in the Union army during the Civil War. Her grandfather Henry Wilson Gorham wished he could have served in the First World War. Her father, postwar novelist Charles Orson Gorham, served in the Second World War. Using such primary sources as the Charles O. Gorham papers housed at the Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University; family papers in her possession; local history sources in St. Johnsbury, Vermont; as well as secondary literature on a variety of topics; Gorham presents an account of the experience of these three men. The case study is intended to contribute to a wider analysis of the intersections between dominant American conceptions of masculinity on the one hand, and war and violence on the other.
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