About WWI Videos

Senior Curator Doran Cart explains how the Museum's 1917 Harley-Davidson made its journey from post-war Europe to the collection at the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Join Dr. Leonard V. Smith, author of Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, for a conversation on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference exploring the question “What international system did...

Beginning in late May 1917, open mutiny swept through much of the French Army.

1917 marked a pivotal shift in African Americans’ quest for civil rights, especially after Woodrow Wilson’s declaration that making the world safe for democracy had become America’s singular...

The peace settlements made at the end of the First World War are often blamed for creating the conditions which sent nations such as Germany and Japan down the road towards dictatorship and led and...

One third of service-age Irishmen voluntarily served in the Great War within the British Army.

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...

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 and...

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 as a...

Over the last months of 1918 and the first months of 1919 Americans suffered through the worst pandemic in their history as Influenza struck.

Warfare and chemical weapons continue to have the same horrific impact today as they did when John Singer Sargent painted Gassed.

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...

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...

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.

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 a of...