WW1 Centennial News for November 2, 2018 - Episode #96

A gruesome task faced the troops after the Armistice

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Highlights: November 1918 Overview

Host: Theo Mayer

• Preview of podcast over the coming weeks | @00:20
• November 1918 Overview - Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer  | @02:40
• Maneuvering both military and diplomatic - Mike Shuster | @18:15
• WWI WarTech: The Wristwatch - Host | @21:55
• Commission News: The coming week of commemoration - Host | @24:30
• Arlington County WWI Commemoration Task Force - Dr. Allison Finkelstein | @26:00
• No Armistice from the flu - David Pietrusza | @34:45
• 100 Cities / 100 Memorials’ effect on Arizona - Neil Urban | @42:30
• Speaking WWI: Foxhole - Host | @49:05
• The Buzz: Social Media selections - Katherine Akey | @50:35

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PODCAST NOTES: Guest links and our research

 

World War One Then

November 1918 Overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1918

Great War Project

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/10/28/take-the-war-to-german-territory/

WW1 War Tech

https://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Doughboy-Fritz-Soldier-Slang/dp/144563

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/history-wristwatch-apple-watch/391424/

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/fashion/wrist-watches-from-battlefield-to-fashion-accessory.html

World War One Now

Commission News

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

http://ww1cc.org/bells

http://ww1cc.org/film

http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/events/special-events/wwicc-honor-and-remember/

Itunes app install link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bells-of-peace-wwi-armistice/id1436351331?ls=1&mt=8

Android app install link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ww1cc.bells

Remembering Veterans

https://commissions.arlingtonva.us/wwi/

https://www.arlnow.com/2018/06/27/arlington-historians-plan-event-to-mark-world-war-is-centennial/

Historian Corner

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-teddy-roosevelt-tried-bully-way-onto-wwi-battlefield-180962840/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/letters-unbearable-grief-theodore-roosevelt-death-son-180962743/

https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-flu-pandemic/index.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

100Cities/100Memorials

www.ww1cc.org/100memorials

Articles and Posts

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.html

The Buzz

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/countdowntoveteransday?source=feed_text&__tn__=*NK-R

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/countdowntoveteransday/

https://twitter.com/search?q=countdowntoveteransday&src=typd

https://deadline.com/2018/10/peter-jackson-warner-bros-wwi-documentary-they-shall-not-grow-old-toby-emmerich-carolyn-blackwood-blair-rich-1202491670/

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Starr Foundation

Production:

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey

Additional Scripting: Dr. Edward Lengel

Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe

Research: JL Michaud

Intern: Rachel Hurt

SUBSCRIPTIONS

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