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1. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2026) The “American Paradox”: The Constitution, Race, Rights, and the Pursuit of Justice. In: Rights and Justice Festival, 11 June 2026, The Hive, Worcester. (Unpublished)
2. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2025) “Kill Bill 1776”: The Mothers’ Movement, Maternalism, and the ‘Defense of the United States’, 1940-1941’. In: The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering, 5-6 February 2026, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
3. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2025) The “American Experiment”. In: Rights and Justice Festival, 08/07/2025, The Hive, Worcester. (Unpublished)
4. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2025) Pitching Patriotism: Baseball in American World War II Propaganda Posters. In: Combat, Spectacle, Sport and War, 23-24 October 2025, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. (Unpublished)
5. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2024) ‘The hope of this country lies in its mothers’: We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America Inc.’s Vilification of World War Two. In: Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Winter Symposium, The United States and World War II: Impacts and Legacies at Home and Abroad, University of Gloucestershire. (Unpublished)
6. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2024) Women and the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam During the Early 1970s: A Case Study. In: Special Supplementary Lunchtime Lecture, 6 March 2025, London School of Economics, Department of International History. (Unpublished)
7. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2024) A “Sports-loving people” at War: Team USA in the Propaganda of “the most important game of all” – World War II. In: Sport and Leisure History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 24 June 2024, Senate House, Malet Street, London. (Unpublished)
8. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2024) “Probably the Most Perfect Symbol of Our Democracy”: The Army, Sports, and the Re-education of German Youth during the Early American Occupation of Germany, 1945–1946. Journal of American Studies, 58 (2). pp. 220-247. ISSN 0021-8758 (print); 1469-5154 (web)
9. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2024) “There were only a few women around”: Female Anti-war Activists in the GI Movement During the Early 1970s. In: North American History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 16 May 2024, Senate House, Malet Street, London. (Unpublished)
10. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2023) ‘“Bring The Boys Home!”: We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America’s Women’s Voice Dissents Against World War II and the Korean War’. In: Pro- and Anti-War Voices, 11 November 2023, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
11. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2023) Women Protest World War II: Women’s Voice and Women Oppose the Vietnam War. [Show/Exhibition]
12. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2023) Pro- and Anti-War Voices. [Show/Exhibition]
13. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2023) ‘The Greatest Team in the World!’: Sporting Metaphors in American Recruitment and Morale Propaganda During World War Two. In: British Society of Sports History 2023 Annual Conference, 24-25 August 2023, Institute of Sport, Manchester Metropolitan University. (Unpublished)
14. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2022) Rights and The Rule of Nine. In: Stanford History Group 2022 Lecture Series, 7 November 2022, Upper Sapey Village Hall. (Unpublished)
15. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2022) The Essentials of American Republicanism and the Creation of the United States of America. In: Stanford History Group 2022 Lecture Series, 31 October 2022, Upper Sapey Village Hall. (Unpublished)
16. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2022) “Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front. The Journal of American Culture, 45 (1). pp. 63-85. ISSN Print: 1542-7331 Online ISSN: 1542734X
17. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2022) “Real war ammunition”: Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front. In: School of Humanities, Research Seminar Series, 23 March 2022, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
18. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2021) Japan and the Early Twentieth Century World. In: Stanford History Group Autumn Program 2021, 8 November 2021, Upper Sapey Village Hall. (Unpublished)
19. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2021) Japan and the Nineteenth Century World. In: Stanford History Group Autumn Program 2021, 1 November 2021, Upper Sapey Village Hall. ISSN https://stanfordhistorygroup.com/past-programmes/ (Unpublished)
20. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2019) "The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace" by Susan L. Carruthers (Book Review). Intellect.
21. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2017) 'American Women and World War One'. In: Women’s History Network, Midlands Region Annual Conference, 'North American Women and World War One', 4 November 2017, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
22. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2017) Sports, Democracy and Reeducation during the American Occupation of Germany. In: The British Society of Sport History Annual Conference, 1-2 September 2017, The Arena, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
23. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2016) Diagnosing the Nazis. In: Public Lecture, 21 July 2016, The Chapel, City Campus, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
24. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2016) Pathologies of War: The Medical Model of the German and Japanese Enemy in World War II. In: Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts Research Seminar, 4 May 2016, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
25. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) ‘Real war ammunition’: The National War Poster Competition, 1942. In: Symposium on Art from the Second World War, 20 November, University of St Andrews. (Unpublished)
26. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) America and Germany. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 13-14. ISBN 076560440X
27. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) America and Japan. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 16-17. ISBN 076560440X
28. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) German Aliens. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, p. 152. ISBN 076560440X
29. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) Hirohito. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 172-173. ISBN 076560440X
30. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) Japanese Americans. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 201-202. ISBN 076560440X
31. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) MacArthur, Douglas. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 235-236. ISBN 076560440X
32. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) Office of War Information. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, pp. 286-287. ISBN 076560440X
33. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2015) Shirer, William Lawrence. In: Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Routledge, London, p. 350. ISBN 076560440X
34. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2014) Women and the Military: Who Will Answer the Call? Women’s History Magazine, 76 (Autumn). pp. 4-5. ISSN 1476-6760
35. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2013) "Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972" by Margaret W. Rossiter (Book Review). Taylor and Francis.
36. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2011) “Not like U.S.”: Enemy Image Creation and American National Identity. In: World War II and the Media, 22 June 2011, Warrington Campus, University of Chester. (Unpublished)
37. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2010) Bat Bomb: “Japs”, Bats, “Nuts”, and a Tiger! In: Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts, Academic Staff Seminars, 8 December 2010, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
38. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2009) The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980): Image versus Reality. In: Women’s History Network, Midlands Region Conference, ‘Women and War: Activists and Observers’, 25 April 2009, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
39. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2008) Know Your Enemy: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-45. In: 'Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and War in the Modern Age', 8-10 July 2008, University of Kent, Canterbury. (Unpublished)
40. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2008) Anthropologists at War: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and the ‘principal danger in the world … the spread of fascism’. In: Women’s History Network, Midlands Region Conference, ‘She Does What? The Unexplored Expertise of Women, 3 May 2008, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
41. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2007) Prescriptions for Peace: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-45. In: Staff Seminar Series, Faculty of Humanities, 5 December 2007, De Montfort University. (Unpublished)
42. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2007) "Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War" by John Hoerr (Book Review). John Wiley & Sons.
43. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2007) "Fall‐Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War" by Michael L. Krenn (Book Review). John Wiley & Sons.
44. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2007) Prescriptions for Peace: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-1945. In: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Academic Staff Seminar, 7 March 2007, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
45. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2006) "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" by David M. Kennedy (Book Review). American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool John Moores University.
46. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2005) Jekyll and Hyde: The Forgotten History of the VW Beetle. In: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Focus Day, 16 March 2005, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
47. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2003) ‘Reorientation should be our principal justification and objective’: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Reeducation of Germany and Japan, 1945-1950. In: The Foundations of Globalization?, 6-7 November 2003, University of Manchester. (Unpublished)
48. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2003) "The United States and World War II: The Awakening Giant" by Martin Folly (Book Review). Cambridge University Press.
49. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2002) Candy Floss and Cowgirls: Cultural Transmission and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Volksfest, Berlin. In: 'Americanization and Anti-Americanism: The Impact of American Culture on Germany After 1945', 16-20, October, 2002, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. (Unpublished)
50. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2002) "Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the History of Holocaust Memory” by Donald Bloxham (Book Review). Institute of Historical Research.
51. Toon, Wendy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7876-3214 (2002) "The Cold War: The Essential Readings” edited by Klaus Larres & Ann Lane (Book Review). American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool John Moores University.

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	"The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace" by Susan L. Carruthers (Book Review)	308
2.	"The Cold War: The Essential Readings” edited by Klaus Larres & Ann Lane (Book Review)	234
3.	Jekyll and Hyde: The Forgotten History of the VW Beetle	230	34
4.	‘“Bring The Boys Home!”: We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America’s Women’s Voice Dissents Against World War II and the Korean War’	228	1
5.	Office of War Information	225
6.	"The United States and World War II: The Awakening Giant" by Martin Folly (Book Review)	223
7.	"Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972" by Margaret W. Rossiter (Book Review)	222
8.	"Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" by David M. Kennedy (Book Review)	220
9.	‘Real war ammunition’: The National War Poster Competition, 1942	211	5
10.	Hirohito	199
11.	MacArthur, Douglas	197
12.	"Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the History of Holocaust Memory” by Donald Bloxham (Book Review)	191
13.	Diagnosing the Nazis	190	7
14.	Anthropologists at War: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and the ‘principal danger in the world … the spread of fascism’	187	80
15.	Japanese Americans	187
16.	America and Japan	187
17.	Shirer, William Lawrence	185
18.	America and Germany	184
19.	‘Reorientation should be our principal justification and objective’: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Reeducation of Germany and Japan, 1945-1950	179	26
20.	The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980): Image versus Reality	178	2
21.	Candy Floss and Cowgirls: Cultural Transmission and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Volksfest, Berlin	172	54
22.	German Aliens	172
23.	"Fall‐Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold War" by Michael L. Krenn (Book Review)	163
24.	"Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America's Cold War" by John Hoerr (Book Review)	163
25.	Sports, Democracy and Reeducation during the American Occupation of Germany	161	11
26.	Know Your Enemy: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-45	154	29
27.	Bat Bomb: “Japs”, Bats, “Nuts”, and a Tiger!	148	10
28.	“There were only a few women around”: Female Anti-war Activists in the GI Movement During the Early 1970s	148
29.	A “Sports-loving people” at War: Team USA in the Propaganda of “the most important game of all” – World War II	146
30.	Pathologies of War: The Medical Model of the German and Japanese Enemy in World War II	138	7
31.	‘The Greatest Team in the World!’: Sporting Metaphors in American Recruitment and Morale Propaganda During World War Two	124
32.	“Real war ammunition:” Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition, and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front	122	573
33.	“Not like U.S.”: Enemy Image Creation and American National Identity	120	8
34.	Women and the Military: Who Will Answer the Call?	119
35.	Prescriptions for Peace: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-45	116	24
36.	“Real war ammunition”: Artists for Victory, the National War Poster Competition and the Hostile Imagination on the United States World War II Home Front	116
37.	'American Women and World War One'	114
38.	Prescriptions for Peace: The Pathological Enmification of Germany and Japan, 1942-1945	110	13
39.	“Probably the Most Perfect Symbol of Our Democracy”: The Army, Sports, and the Re-education of German Youth during the Early American Occupation of Germany, 1945–1946	100	123
40.	Women Protest World War II: Women’s Voice and Women Oppose the Vietnam War	95
41.	‘The hope of this country lies in its mothers’: We, the Mothers, Mobilize for America Inc.’s Vilification of World War Two	3
42.	Pitching Patriotism: Baseball in American World War II Propaganda Posters	3
43.	Pro- and Anti-War Voices	3
44.	Women and the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam During the Early 1970s: A Case Study	2
45.	“Kill Bill 1776”: The Mothers’ Movement, Maternalism, and the ‘Defense of the United States’, 1940-1941’	1
46.	The “American Experiment”
47.	The “American Paradox”: The Constitution, Race, Rights, and the Pursuit of Justice
48.	Japan and the Nineteenth Century World
49.	Japan and the Early Twentieth Century World
50.	The Essentials of American Republicanism and the Creation of the United States of America
51.	Rights and The Rule of Nine