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...
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.
Learn the history of the Panthéon de la Guerre, once regarded as the largest painting in the world, in this video from the exhibition "Rearranging History: Daniel MacMorris and the Panthéon de la...
Men work in the shadow of a dock, pushing and carrying war supplies from a ship’s hold onto a train boxcar; a bright background behind shows ships moored, a boom crane and a billowing American...
The scheduled Olympics in 1916 were canceled due to World War I. While the Olympics resumed in 1920, a seminal event featuring renowned athletes from across the world took place in 1919 in the of the...
Sports, including football, had an important role in preparing U.S. soldiers for combat in World War I. By 1917, when the United States entered WWI, football had been played by many of the young men...
On Jan. 16, 1919, after nearly a century of activism, the Prohibition movement finally achieved its goal to rid American society of “the tyranny of drink.” Passed by Congress on Dec. 18, 1917, or...
Beer was part of daily life for soldiers during WWI. This article focuses on the personal and official references to beer during World War I, held in the archives of the Museum and Memorial.
The national food effort, and reorganization of the supply chain, served an Allied victory and inarguably changed how Americans ate, prepared and thought about food.
One aspect of American life not anticipated to be uprooted by World War I: Major League Baseball. Hundreds of current and future MLB players served in WWI.
A recent donation to the Museum is a painting done in 1969 by Daniel MacMorris in preparation for creating his mural in Memory Hall on the Blue Star Mothers.
