World War 1

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• SOURCE: A Correction: A Podcast
  7/26/19
  

  Historian David Carlin Discusses Teaching the Treaty of Versailles on Podcast

  The hosts speak with David Carlin about why we need to reexamine the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles on its 100th anniversary.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/23/19
  

  Hundreds of black Americans were killed during 'Red Summer.' A century later, still ignored

  It was branded "Red Summer" because of the bloodshed and amounted to some of the worst white-on-black violence in U.S. history.

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• 6/23/19
  

  On the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, It's Time to Reexamine Its Legacy.

  by David Carlin

  Versailles did not destroy the German economy, make Germany into a permanent pariah, or inspire the German lust for revenge. Instead, the Nazis capitalized on a unique economic calamity (the Great Depression), German political instability, and deep seated radical nationalist currents.

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• 5/12/19
  

  Mothers and Food Aid from World War One to Today

  by William Lambers

  There are millions of mothers across the world right now desperate to save their children from malnutrition. On Mother’s Day, and every day, we should take action to help them. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/3/19
  

  May Fourth, the Day That Changed China

  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

  Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

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• SOURCE: St. Louis Today
  5/8/19
  

  The St. Louis roots of 'Make America Great Again'

  by Steven P. Miller and Warren Rosenblum

  In pronouncing this version of Americanism, the Legion drew upon the worst of the nation’s wartime tendencies: rising xenophobia.

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• 5/7/19
  

  How Chinese History Restarted 100 Years Ago

  by Peter Zarrow

  On Sunday, May 4, 1919, some 3,000 students assembled at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Deadly gases may be starting to leak from Europe’s World War weapons cemeteries

  Used as a potentially deadly chemical agent during World War I, mustard gas can burn victims’ skin, respiratory tract and eyes.

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• 5/5/19
  

  Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and the Long Reach of World War I’s Jingoism

  by Dirk Langeveld

  Although it presented an extreme case, the Bergdoll saga demonstrates how the sentiments that had brought about “liberty measles” in 1917 were still alive and well more than two decades later.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/18/19
  

  Medal of Honor review sought for minority World War I heroes

  Lawmakers want the Pentagon to take another look at scores of soldiers who may have been denied the nation's highest military honor due to their race or religion.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’

  by Erez Manela

  After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/4/19
  

  These women were denied veteran status for decades. Congress can’t overlook them again.

  by Elizabeth Cobbs

  Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) now propose to honor the women of the Signal Corps with the Congressional Gold Medal. 

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• 3/3/19
  

  Battlefield Tourism At Ypres and How Public History Sites Change

  by Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel

  Modern Ypres or Ieper is a world forged and shaped in the furnace of a conflict that ended one hundred years ago this November. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/26/19
  

  Not Every Woman Who Served With the U.S. Military During World War I Got the Same Treatment. Here’s Why

  By the time the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, two thousand women had enlisted as “Yeoman (F).”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/19
  

  A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.

  The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  2/12/19
  

  What the Paris Peace Conference can teach us about politics today

  by Anand Menon, Margaret MacMillan, Patrick Quinton-Brown

  Many of the challenges that concern us today—ethnic nationalisms, building the foundations for peace and prosperity around the globe, managing and containing war, or the future of Europe—were discussed in Paris a hundred years ago.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The Polar Bear Expedition: When America Intervened in Russian Affairs

  by James Carl Nelson

  As allegations and investigations swirl around the questions of Russian intervention in our 2016 elections, it’s worth a look back one hundred years to our own intervention in Russia. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  5-18-14
  

  World War One: The original code talkers

  When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue.

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• SOURCE: HistoryNet
  11-12-13
  

  What a Century! Observing the Centenary of the First World War

  by Michael S. Neiberg

  In the United States, the war remains the least-understood and most-ignored major event in our history.