Prospectus #2
The final product, I hope, will be a Scalar project. The reason I am going with the Scalar, as the topic is interesting, and building a lasting legacy in which others could look to for their own enjoyment or research.
Question of Paper
What influence has the Salvation Army had on Doughnut consumption, likeableness, and production in the world since World War I and World War II? This question is a moving question, as I will explore the history of the doughnut, then the history of the Salvation Army briefly, then look to the involvement the Salvation army had in the both the wars, and the subsequent yearning for the doughnuts by returning soldiers. I want to show that the soldier's affinity for the doughnut changed the landscape of the doughnut to a marketable and mass produced item.
Bibliography
All the World. Vol. 39. London: Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, 1918. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101047678758.
Brown, Ellen. Donut Nation. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2015.
Carroll, Abigail. Three Squares the Invention of the American Meal. New York: Basick Books, 2013.
“Didn’t See an Egg.” The Topeka State Journal. October 16, 1919. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1919-10-16/ed-1/seq-6/
Directory of Social and Health Agencies of New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1911.
Evangeline Booth, and Grace Livingston Hill. The War Romance of the Salvation Army. Philidelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1919. books.google.com/books?id=hTpAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Salvation+Army+in+World+War+I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_uuXwlb7SAhXqj1QKHTiaAv4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Salvation%20Army%20in%20World%20War%20I&f=false.
Heather Hunwick. Doughnut: A Global History. London: Reakiton Books Ltd, 2015.
“How They Made the Doughnuts and Pie.” April 4, 1919, El Paso Herald edition, sec. HOME EDITION. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1919-04-04/ed-1/seq-17.
“How to Make Salvation Army Doughnuts.” May 22, 1919. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87076843/1919-05-22/ed-1/seq-1/.
James H. Madison. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: AN American Woman in World War II. Indianapolis and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Karch, Henry Pounds. To the Boys Back Home, Written and Dedicated to the Boys Back Home. Cincinnati: H. P. Karch, 1919. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t9474vm6r;view=1up;seq=15.
Krondl, Michael. Seet Invention: A History of Dessert. 1st ed. Chicago Review Press, 2011.
Lettie Gavin. American Women In World War I. 1st ed. University Press of Colorado, 2011.
Marshall, A. F. “The Salvation Army.” Catholic World. Volume: 51, no. Issue: 306 (September 1890): 738–46.
McCormick, W.B. “The Salvation’s Army Own Story.” The Sun. June 1, 1919, sec. Section 6. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
“Real People; He’s Strong for the Salvation Army.” South Bend News-Times. May 18, 1919. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87055779/1919-05-18/ed-1/seq-13/.
Steve Penfold. The Donut: A Canadian History. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
“Tornado Again Brings Salvation Army Doughnuts into Ascendancy.” May 14, 1920, Charlevoix county herald edition. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96076839/1920-05-14/ed-1/seq-2/.
United War Work Campaign, Inc. The United War Work Campaign, What It Is and What It Means, November 11-18, 1918, 1918. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/t51g39c5h;view=1up;seq=2.
Wisbey, Herbert A. Soldiers without Swords; a History of the Salvation Army in the United States. New York: The McMillan Company, 1955. catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001594658.
Topics to Cover
Since I am doing a Scalar project, I will break this down by chapters of the book. The first chapter and subsequent sub-chapters will involve the definition of Doughnut, then the two histories to explore; German and Dutch. From these chapters, I will go into Chapter 2, the Salvation Army. This chapter will cover a brief but effective history of the Salvation Army in America. From there the reader will come to a mid-section; The Great Wars. This is broken down into World War I and the Salvation Army and World War II and the Salvation Army. Within these two chapters, I will explore what the Salvation Army did in both wars, most notably with doughnuts. After this, the reader will then go to a chapter, Retuning Home. This will talk about the soldiers and the Salvation Army following both Wars. I will finish up by showing how doughnuts shops began to spring up around America following the wars in one chapter, and how the production of doughnuts was improved by the implementation of technological advances.
I am also waiting for responses from the Salvation Army National Archives for more direct sources for this topic, so some of the Chapters and aspects could change with more direct information, and I am also looking to more secondary sources, such as books written about the females of the Salvation Army, which too could have its own chapter within this work.
All in all, I believe this book will be very beneficial at the end, to bolster any information about both the Salvation Army and Doughnuts as a whole (or Hole, however you look at it).