Coming up are on Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM CDT “Gorlice & Tarnow: The Great Retreat” on Youtube and on Saturday April 9th at 10:30 AM CDT “Women & Espionage” on Zoom.
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Click here to read about these forgotten heroines.
Sunday March 6th 2:00 PM CST ‘Women and Remembrance’ on Zoom
Sunday March 20th 2:00 PM CST ‘Reframing War’ on Youtube
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Previously we have featured articles about all of the WW1 Medal of Honor recipients with a Kansas connection. However, we missed one.
Pfc. Charles Barger, 354th Infantry, 89th Division, was born in Galena, Kansas but grew up in Scott City, Missouri. Post-war he lived in and around Kansas City, except for a six-month re-enlistment in the army in 1921. He was then a Kansas City police officer for over 12 years, and was shot five times in the line of duty.
We’ve previously written about the first American officer to be killed in action, First Lieut. William Fitzsimons, MC from Burlington, Kansas (you can read about him by clicking here). Another first was claimed by Pvt. Clyde Grimsley of the 16th Infantry, from Stockton, Kansas, who was one of the first six American Doughboys to be captured by the Germans. You can read more about Grimsley and his comrades by clicking here.
All times are CST.
Tuesday Feb. 15th 7:00 The Irish Revolution on Zoom.
Monday Feb. 28th Russia’ Civil War on Youtube.
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On December 26th, 1917 President Woodrow Wilson declared an emergency and took over the nations railroads for the duration of the war. Subsequently it took several acts of Congress to reverse and redress this action. Read the whole story by clicking here.
Teaching WW1 to students in Frontenac Kansas
Brady Hill is a history teacher at the high school in Frontenac, a small city just north of Pittsburg in the old Kansas coal country. You can read about this by clicking here.
Cleanup of WW1 Chemical Dump finished
Previously we have reported about these sites in the northwestern part of the District of Columbia (read by clicking here). The Army Corps of Engineers says that the cleanup and remediation work is now complete. Click here for the complete story.
William and Elizabeth Smith Friedman were among the premier cryptoanalysts in the First World War. You can read more about them by clicking here.
