Date of Award:
5-2012
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Arts (MA)
Department:
History
Committee Chair(s)
Daniel J. McInerney
Committee
Daniel J. McInerney
Committee
Norman Jones
Committee
Shawn Clybor
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate homesickness from the perspective of foreign-born migrants, who exhibited multiple notions of home. Letters written to loved ones depicting homesick experiences of the men at the war front illuminate the personal, sentimental, and cultural notions associated with the definition of what a "home" meant. Although focused to a narrow period of American history, this study adds to the larger themes of immigration by acknowledging migrants' abilities to adapt to their surroundings and make unfamiliar settings resemble the familiar places, faces, customs, and communities of past experiences.
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Recommended Citation
Foster, Joseph G., "Homesickness and the Location of Home: Germans, Heimweh, and the American Civil War" (2012). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 1333.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1333
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This work made publicly available electronically on September 20, 2012.