T. Everett Harre and Patriotic Journalism During the Great War / by Benjamin A. Harvey

This paper addresses the time during and directly following World War I. It uses the life ofT. Everett Harre, a man from South Central Pennsylvania, to illustrate the conflicts that were happening for both individuals and society about the meaning of patriotism and the right to dissent. Harre is a unique example of the mainstream conservative views that manifested themselves in the United States, as well as the power that war had to influence people's political beliefs. He wrote several pamphlets and magazine articles that illustrated his beliefs about immigration, radical labor, and socialism. This time period was one of intense social conflict that occurred during the United States' birth into modernism, which makes it a very important piece of history.