Museum and Memorial Senior Curator Doran Cart shares some of the techniques used when determining the authenticity of an WWI-era object before accepting it into the Museum collection.
This presentation considers the experiences of the 3,500 women who served coffee and donuts to doughboys across France, and in the process, began a long history of American women going to war to bring
Join Dr. Tim Dayton, Kansas State University English professor and author of American Poetry and the First World War, for a lecture on poetry during World War I and how we understand it today.
Although medical personnel were already well aware of mental and neurological injuries commonly referred to as "shell shock," 1916 marked a turning point in which nations and militaries were forced to
Dig into the delicious history of Donut Day with Dr. Chris Cantwell, Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at UMKC, who will discuss The Salvation Army’s humanitarian role in World War
Warfare and chemical weapons continue to have the same horrific impact today as they did when John Singer Sargent painted Gassed. Join us for three rapid-fire talks looking at the different aspects of
Over the last months of 1918 and the first months of 1919 Americans suffered through the worst pandemic in their history as Influenza struck. When the disease had finally receded, 675,000 Americans
Join noted and invigorating lecturer, Dr. Richard S. Faulkner, for an examination of how the U.S. Army met the myriad of difficulties presented in entering the fray in the Great War and the country’s
Many of today’s disputed borders in the Middle East were created during World War I. Join Assistant Professor and Middle East Specialist Lieutenant Colonel Brian Steed of the U.S. Army General Command
On the evening of Oct. 2, 1918, Major Charles W. Whittlesey of the 77th Division led nearly 700 men under his command into the narrow Charlevaux Ravine, deep in the heart of the Argonne Forest in
