Explore everything WWI

Nearly 9 million people were held as POWs in WWI. Professor Heather Jones, historic advisor for special exhibition "Captured", delves into the seldom-told stories of life behind the wire.

The Museum and Memorial teams with area amateur radio operators for special event station WW1USA. All short-wave radio operators welcome.

Join this exclusive conversation with specialist curator Patricia Cecil on "Fighting with Faith", an online exhibition that explores the story of the first mosque on German soil.

In 1923, T.E. Lawrence rented an abandoned cottage near Britain’s south coast. A century later, Clouds Hill staff and volunteers discuss how Lawrence turned it into his ‘earthly paradise.’

100 years after Adolf Hitler’s 1923 Versailles speech, Professor Thomas Weber explores how and why he blamed Jews for Germany’s post-WWI crisis and turned towards genocidal antisemitism.

Come do your bit – knit! Kansas City Museum curator Lisa Shockley presides this month. All crafters and non-crafters welcome!

From city and state legislative efforts to control content in public libraries to local universities blocking conservative speakers on campus, “Canceled, Censored, Banned” picks apart our growing reluctance to tolerate divergent viewpoints and to silence voices we disagree with.

Teachers, join the Gilder Lehrman Institute - featuring Dr. Donald L. Fixico and Museum and Memorial curator Patricia Cecil - in exploring American Indian history since 1900.

The National Council for the Social Studies brings together educators and doctoral students to pilot chapters from the online methods text currently under development by the Library of Congress and NCSS.

Panel discussion that will trace the origins and evolution of commemorating the United States’ war dead for the last century by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

To raise morale in WWI, each branch of the U.S. military created football teams. Author Chris Serb explores the camaraderie between players and spectator interest that led to the founding of the NFL in 1920.

This month, Living History Volunteers bring to life soldiers and civilians of various nationalities who were on the Western Front. Bring your questions!

Becoming a POW has always been fraught when fear and hatred complicate the process of surrendering. Dr. Richard Faulkner explores how Americans and Germans treated each other’s POWs in WWI.