Q&A with Lindsey Fitzharris
Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Facemaker, talked about the life and career of Dr. Harold Gillies, a New Zealand plastic surgeon who reconstructed the faces of thousands…
405 viewsMedical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Facemaker, talked about the life and career of Dr. Harold Gillies, a New Zealand plastic surgeon who reconstructed the faces of thousands…
405 viewsMilitary historian James Carl Nelson looked at the efforts of U.S. Army Sergeant Alvin York, who was responsible for seizing German positions in the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the last…
447 viewsPhotographer and former president of the Budapest Stock Exchange, Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, documented the 100th anniversary of WWI through photographs of commemorations done in 57…
192 viewsThis “Film Bulletin” produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps shows how training, informational, and Hollywood films were distributed by ship, airplane, train, truck, and sometimes camel to…
340 viewsMilitary historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman’s World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library…
138 viewsPatricia O’Toole recounted the struggle between President Woodrow Wilson and Senate Majority Leader Henry Cabot Lodge over ratification of the 1919 Versailles Treaty, which ended World War…
281 viewsThe armistice ending World War I--and the centennial of Arlington Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier--were remembered with the tolling of a U.S. Navy ship bell at the National World War…
220 viewsNovember 11, 2021 is the centennial of Arlington Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Samuel Holliday, of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, explained the story behind the tomb, who is laid…
366 viewsAmerican University professor Pamela Nadell taught a class about the rise in anti-Semitism in America between World War I and II. She described the 1915 lynching of Jewish man Leo Frank in…
1,195 viewsProfessor Jennifer Keene talked about myths about America’s involvement in World War I, including the misconceptions that the U.S. was not involved in Europe prior to entering the war, or…
6,678 viewsPhilip Zelikow talked about his book, The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917. It examines a five-month period during which the United States, the United…
454 viewsC-SPAN visited monuments, villages, and an American cemetery associated with the September 12 to 16, 1918 World War I Battle of Saint-Mihiel, France. Locations included the Montsec American…
1,318 viewsHistorian Mitchell Yockelson led a tour of American monuments, battlefields, and a cemetery in northeastern France to commemorate the centennial of several battles in May and June of 1918.…
3,452 viewsThe immediate post-World War I era was a period in U.S. history marked by violent labor strikes, mass anti-immigration rallies, race riots, and a government crackdown on socialist and other leftist…
1,014 viewsThree reenactors portraying German World War I soldiers discussed their uniforms, equipment, and the difficulties the common soldier faced. They were participants in a living history event…
1,220 viewsTwo U.S. Army veterans portrayed French World War I soldiers in a mock trench. Wearing uniforms and gear from the last two years of the conflict, the soldiers discussed the French…
1,129 viewsThe United States World War I Centennial Commission marked the opening of the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., with a video tribute and flag-raising ceremony to honor the…
215 viewsDuring the Spanish-American War, the YMCA initiated a program to recruit women to bring a little bit of home to U.S. troops. In this program from the National World War I Museum in Kansas…
594 viewsHistorian Mitchell Yockelson and French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan visited battlefields, villages, and monuments to tell the story of the forty-seven day Meuse-Argonne offensive,…
2,227 viewsThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the U.S. government. The first was presented by President Lincoln in 1863. Daughters of World War I Medal of Honor recipients John…
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