Commemorating the First World War Centennial in Kansas
Coming to the Dole Institute of Politics on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence in February:
Join us throughout February for the 2017 Presidential Lecture Series, “The U.S. and the Great War: 100 Years Later.” The four-part series will coincide with the 100-year anniversary of U.S. entry into the war. KU professor emeritus Ted Wilson will facilitate the series of four lectures, which will welcome expert speakers covering different facets of the war.
The weekly alert to WWI talks being shown this upcoming weekend on C-SPAN3. All are talks given at the National World War I Museum and Memorial’s symposium in early November. All but one has been aired before.
Lee Pollack’s talk on “Winston Churchill’s Military Career” airs again on Saturday morning the 14th at 8:00 a.m. CT, and again at 4:00 a.m. CT on Sunday morning the 15th.
36th Division shoulder patch WW1 era
Joseph Oklahombi (1985-1960) was a member of the Choctaw Nation and an Oklahoma National Guardsman who served in Company D, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. He is recognized as one of the Choctaw Code Talkers but that story has been covered before. The 1st /141st later became the “Lost Battalion” of WW2, also another story.
The following exhibit was at the National World War I Museum and Memorial this past year, and is now available as a traveling exhibit. The links provide more information, including a contact if your organization is interested in the exhibit:
=&0=& Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 National World War I Museum Traveling ExhibitAmerican volunteer organizations contributed immensely to the well-being and welfare of the American men and women serving the American military in WWI, but also to peoples in the war-torn countries around the globe. This special exhibition produced in collaboration with AFS Intercultural Programs shares their inspirational stories.
If you are in the Kansas City area this Sunday (January 8th) and have a yearning for some World War I Living History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial will be the place to be. Living History will be going on all day, with a talk at 2:00 p.m. CT on how to become a living historian (aside from “keep breathing.”)
We’ve touched on the sport of hockey before, and the New York Times has a timely article about the sport and the war effort in 1917. True patriot love in all thy sons command, indeed! But how could they let a little thing like war interfere with hockey? I’ve shared the article below, but you can also read the original article here.
We do like to try to present suggestions that libraries, museums, and other organizations can use for their group. Often it’s just easy to present what others around the country are doing for the Centennial.
In this case, we go to the Bridgeton Public Library in New Jersey, which has assembled an exhibit of letters from native sons describing conditions. This should be an easy one for many organizations scratching around for ideas. Click here.
If you were unable to attend the 2016 Symposium held at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in early November, this weekend you have the chance to hear some of the sessions on C-SPAN3.
But first up on Saturday morning the 7th is a repeat of America Goes Over, the 1918 Signal Corps film on American participation in the war. It airs at 7:00 a.m. CT.
Occasionally a reporter had the good sense to write about older veterans before they left us. Gene Smith — himself now gone — wrote about Charles Hosley of Humboldt in December 1998. The article, which appeared in the Topeka Capital-Journal on December 19th of that year, follows:
Aldon Leslie Logan was born in Lawrence, KS, on April 14, 1894. The city directory for 1915 shows he was a student at the University of Kansas, which would qualify him for the officers’ training school. His draft registration card shows him to have been working as a laborer for the Griffin Ice Company of Lawrence.
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