The 14th newsletter on Understanding the Great War, prepared by the staff of the National World War I Museum and Memorial, has been issued.  The subject:  Medicine and Shell Shock.

The newsletter can be seen here:  http://wfly.co/Kh7u3

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.