Yesterday on KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO) was the discussion about “The Fight to Stay Out of World War I” on their Up to Date program.  Included in the discussion were Michael Kazin, author of War Against War:  The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918, and Doran Cart, Senior Curator of the National World War I Museum and Memorial.

To hear the broadcast, click here:  http://kcur.org/post/fight-stay-out-world-war-i-and-local-listen#stream/0

 

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.