World War I
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The National WWI Museum Resources and Interactive timeline
Live Presentation from a Belgium point of view - Asian perspective of the War and Flanders Field Peoples from around the globe came forward at the call of the empires to the trenches of the Western Front. For Britain and France, while the story of Australian, Canadian and North African troops is better known, servicemen from Asia were central to the war effort. Join Dr. Dominiek Dendooven, Curator and Researcher for the In Flanders Fields Museum, as he explores the impact of Asia on Europe’s battlefields.
Dr. Leonard Smith Live Presentation The centennial of the end of the Great War poses new questions on the conflict and its aftermath. 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 the Conference create?” The answers lie in a broad investigation of sovereignty—political rule both among states and within them. As the peace conference struggled to reconcile old and new ideas of the composition of nations, it created a new international order that still affects us today.
Margaret MacMillan talk on Paris 1919 - on Audible with a free trial, before she published her book - Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Artifacts and possible posters that can be printed out, long-wise top resemble war-time posters.
Kennesaw State University Voices from the Great War and New Technologies from the Great War
Harvey Dunn, artist from South Dakota entered WWI as an artist soldier. His paintings were featured a couple of years ago (probably 2019) at the Smithsonian. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/official-artwork-wwi/dunn
A documentary of US women who served as telephone operators in France during WWI. (There is also a book of the same name.) The documentary can by watched for free on Tubings. https://tubitv.com/movies/596545/the-hello-girls
Info about these women: https://lincolnpennyfilms.com/index.php/the-hello-girls-documentary-a-ww1-story/
Jeffrey Sammons, a historian and (mostly retired) NYU professor. https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/jeffrey-sammons.html He has written a too long book on The Rattlers- better known as the Harlem Hellfighters, who fought in WWI.
Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War
Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War
Jeffrey Sammons talked about his book, Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality, in which he recounts the first African-American regiment to fight in World War I, the 369th Infantry Regiment. The unit was dubbed the “Harlem Hellfighters,” a nickname the author said the regiment eschewed for the “Harlem Rattlers.” In his book, Mr. Sammons examines the regiment’s leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. Jeffrey Sammons spoke at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?319605-1/harlems-rattlers-great-war
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Hoboken Museum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QwS_J7sYE
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Book TV Talk- https://www.amazon.com/Harlems-Rattlers-Great-War-Undaunted/dp/0700621385
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But because this is an area of interest for him, he had other interesting ideas, particularly about WWI from an African American soldier participant. We're not sure what you know about the 369th Infantry Regiment (Harlem Hellfighters) but they were basically assigned to the French because white Americans did not seem capable of allowing them to serve or being willing to serve with them. There is an interesting documentary that Jeff recommends: Men of Bronze from 1980.
The DoughBoy Foundation - Resources, WWI Memorial, Apps, Submit a Story of Service
Delaware Historical and Cultural Affairs Exhibit of WWI
Topics available for further research thanks to Delaware archives (Scroll to bottom of linked page) and topics below are links too).
University of Delaware Special Collections of WWI Archived
University Libraries Artifacts Gallery WWI
BreakOut.EDU World War I Escape Room
Decodng the War
The war is at its peak and Nazi Germany is continuing to bomb London. The only way for Great Britain to get an idea of what’s going to happen next is for the team of codebreakers to decipher the encrypted messages from Germany. Your mission is to decode the war and save the world in the next 45 minutes. Can you do it? See Mr. Brake for this kit!
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