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“23 Years After Argonne: Jesse Lasky Brings Life Story of Sergeant York to Screen.” Newsweek 14 July 1941: 61-62.

"Alvin C. York Institute." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www2.york.k12.tn.us/index.htm

Andrews, Peter. Sergeant York: Reluctant Hero. New York: Putnam, 1969.

Birdwell, Michael E. Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign against Nazism. New York: New York UP, 1999.

Birdwell, Michael. "'The Devil's Tool': Alvin York and Sergeant York." Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997. 121-41.

Boswell, George W. "Major Lamar Fontaine: Mississippi's Answer to Tom Paine. Sergeant York, and Davy Crockett." Mississippi Folklore Register 10 (1976): 29-36.

Bowers, John. “The Mythical Morning of Sergeant York.” MHQ: The Quarterly of Military History 8:2 (Winter 1996): 38â€"47.

Boxwell, David. "Howard Hawks." Senses of Cinema. http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/hawks/

Branson, Clark. Howard Hawks: A Jungian Study. Santa Barbara: Garland-Clarke, 1987. 128-36.

Bronte, Judith. "Alvin York: In the Lion's Den." http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/Alvin.York.In.Lions.Den.html

"C-SPAN Video Library. Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service." C-SPAN Video Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. .

Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.

Cowan, Sam K. Sergeant York and His People. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922.

Crowther, Bosley. “The Screen in Review: ‘Sergeant York,’ a Sincere Biography of the World War Hero, Makes Its Appearance at the Astor.” New York Times 3 July 1941.

Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. 100-3.

Duffy, Michael. "Firstworldwar.com." N.p., 22 Aug. 2009. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/york.htm

Ferguson, Otis. “In the Army, Aren’t We All.” New Republic 29 September 1941: 404-5.

The Great War: 1918: The American Experience. David G McCullough. PBS Video.

Jacobs, Lewis. "World War II and the American Film." Cinema Journal 7 (1967-68): 1-21.

Kelly, Jack. "How Sergeant York Became America's Hero." American Heritage 9 October 2007.

Koppes, Clayton, and Gregory Black. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990. 37-47.

Leab, Daniel J. "Viewing the War with the Brothers Warner." Film and the First World War. Ed. Karel Dibbets and Bert Hogenkamp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 1995.

Lee, David D. “Appalachia on Film: The Making of Sergeant York.” Southern Quarterly 19. 3-4 (1981): 211-12.

Lee, David. D. Sergeant York: An American Hero. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.

Mast, Gerald. "Howard Hawks." Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Hawks-Howard.html

Medal of Honor: Produced and Directed by Roger Sherman. PBS, 2008.

“New Picture: Sergeant York.” Time 4 August 1941.

Nye, Gerald. "War Propaganda: Our Madness Increases as Our Emergency Shrinks." Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII: 720-23. http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/1941-08-01c.html

Pattullo, George. “The Second Elder Gives Battle.” Saturday Evening Post 26 April 1919: 3â€"4, 71â€"74.

Perry, John. Sergeant York: His Life, Legend & Legacy: The Remarkable Untold Story of Sergeant Alvin C. York. Nashville: Broadmen & Holman, 1997.

"Photograph of Alvin York and his Selective Service Registration Card". Records of the Selective Service System (World War I). U.S. National Archives. . http://www.archives.gov/southeast/exhibit/popups.php?p=4.1.11

Propaganda in Moving Pictures: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on interstate commerce, United States senate, 77th congress, 1st session, on S.Res.152, a resolution authorizing an investigation of war propaganda disseminated by the motion picture industry and of any monopoly in the production, distribution or exhibition of motion pictures; Sept.9-26. Washington: GPO, 1942. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002931932

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

“The Screen: American House of York.” Commonweal 18 July 1941: 306.

"Sergeant Alvin C. York State Historic Park | TN State Parks." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www.tnvacation.com/75/park/3096/sergeant_alvin_c_york_state_historic_park/

“Sergeant York.” Variety 7 July 1941: 12.

"Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www.sgtyork.org/

"Sergeant York Surrenders." Time 1 April 1940: 69-70.

Sergeant York: Of God and Country. Written, Directed and Produced by John Mulholland, 2006.

"Sergt. York Visits with the President." New York Times 31 July 1941: XX.

"Sgt. York Passes On -- Doughboy Hero Of World War I." http://www.britishpathe.com/video/sgt-york-is-dead

"The SGT. York Trail." N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www.sgtyorkdiscovery.com/York_Trail.php

Skeyhill, Thomas John. Sergeant York: Last of the Long Hunters. Philadelphia: J.C. Winston, 1930.

Smithouser, Bob. "Sergeant York." Movie Nights: 25 Movies to Spark Spiritual Discussions with Your Teen. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 2002. 135-39.

Steele, Richard. "The Great Debate: Roosevelt, the Media, and the Coming of the War, 1940-1941." Journal of American History 71.1 (1984): 69-92.

Toplin, Robert Brent. "Sergeant York: If That Is Propaganda, We Plead Guilty." History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996. 81-102,

Varat, Daniel. "'Loyal to the Core': Western North Carolina in the Great War." North Carolina Historical Review 78.3 (2001): 345-77.

"Welcome to the Sergeant Alvin C. York Project Website." The Sergeant Alvin C. York Project, Chatel Chehery, WW1 France Battlefield. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://www.sergeantyorkproject.com/

Wheeler, Richard, ed. Sergeant York and the Great War. Bulverde, Texas: Mantle Ministries, 1998.

Williams, Gladys. "Sergeant Alvin York." Sergeant Alvin York. Concord Learning Systems, n.d. Web. 20 Aug. 2012. http://thehistoryprofessor.us/bin/histprof/misc/alvinyork.html

Wood, Robin. Howard Hawks. London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. 164-68.

Wyatt, Euphemia Van Rensselaer. “When Pacifists Fight.” Catholic World October 1941: 87-89.

York, Alvin C. The Diary of Alvin York. http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html

York, Alvin Cullum. Sergeant York, His Own Life Story and War Diary. Garden State: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931.