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...
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.