Here are a few articles that take a look at the symposium, “Remembering Muted Voices:  Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I Through Today” that was held in Kansas City this past weekend.  This is a subject not always covered in discussions about World War I but no less important.  The sponsors of the program are to be congratulated, and once again the National World War I Museum and Memorial has hosted a program that one might call a less than traditional conference that some museums might shy away from.  250 people were in attendance.

The first is an article from The Mennonite which reviews the symposium:  https://themennonite.org/daily-news/conference-explores-breadth-depth-conscientious-objection/

Each registrant received a white poppy.  For the significance:  http://www.ppu.org.uk/whitepoppy/index.html

A most interesting symposium.

 

Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War. He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.