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Author Chris Serb traced the development of professional football from the Army, Navy and Marine teams that competed against each other during World War I. The National World War I Museum an…

New York University history of science professor Matthew Stanley recounted how Albert Einstein, a German, reached across international lines during World War I to connect with British astrop…

Today’s fighter pilot culture has its origins in World War I. In this program, military historian Michael Hankins revealed the airmen behind the romanticized facades, and described how legen…

During the Spanish-American War, the YMCA initiated a program to recruit women to bring a little bit of home to U.S. troops. In this program from the National World War I Museum in Kansas Ci…

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the U.S. government. The first was presented by President Lincoln in 1863. Daughters of World War I Medal of Honor recipients…

In 1918, a flu virus infected one-third of the world’s population. Lora Vogt with the National World War I Museum and Memorial discussed the correlations between the 1918 pandemic and today’…

Historian Nancy Bristow talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated American civilians and soldiers during the final year of World War I and beyond. She also explained why…

In 2013, Congress created the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission. One of its directives was to establish a national World War I memorial in Washington, D.C.  Edwin Fountain, the commissi…

During World Wars I and II, African American troops were subjected to experimental medical treatments based on racial stereotypes. Khary Oronde Polk discussed his book, Contagions of Empire,…

Historian Mona Siegel talked about her book, Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World War. The Sacramento State history professor argued that a great di…

Harvard Professor Erez Manela talked about how Woodrow Wilson’s American upbringing and education shaped his outlook on foreign policy as president, particularly his vision for the League of…

Geoff Ward talked about the legacies of racial violence in America, particularly during the Jim Crow era. He is a professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University i…

Chad Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. He talked about the post-war activism of these soldiers, explaining how after figh…

World War I scholar and author James Carl Nelson discussed his book, The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918 to 1919. In August of 1918, about 5…

University of Kansas Professor Nathan Wood looked at the state of Eastern European countries in the aftermath of World War I and following the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and R…

World War I scholar Tammy Proctor gave an illustrated talk titled: “The Myth of Isolation: American Intervention in Postwar Europe, 1919 - 1924.” This presentation was part of the National W…

Yiğit Akin is the author of When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire. He discussed his book, which looks at the impact of World War I on ordinary Otto…

Military historian and retired naval commander John Kuehn gave a talk titled, “From the Barents to the Black Sea: U.S. Naval Activities in Post-Great War Europe, 1918-1921.” U.S. Army Comman…

Historian Adriane Lentz-Smith examined how African Americans endured military service during World War I while simultaneously battling the racism of Jim Crow America. She argued that the exp…

Neal Bascomb recounted a group of Allied prisoners who escaped a German POW camp in 1918, digging a tunnel for several months and then traveling 150 miles to Holland.