WW1 Centennial News for June 07, 2019 - Episode #126

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Highlights: Teaching & Learning WWI

Host - Theo Mayer

Lafayette, Here We Go Again - Host | @ 02:15
Killing the Angel of Peace - Mike Shuster | @ 07:15
War Memoirs From WWI: “Siegfried Sassoon” - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 11:30
Updates From The States: Hawaii - Col. Arthur Tulak (ret.) | @ 17:20
Education in 1919 - Host | @ 25:15
WWI Educator’s Tool Kits - Dr. Jennifer Zoebelein | @ 28:15
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Ron Nash | @ 36:25

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World War I - THEN

100 Years Ago

Lafayette, Here We Go Again - Host

“The American Expeditionary Force,” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/stars-and-stripes/articles-and-essays/a-world-at-war/american-expeditionary-forces/

“American Soldiers Arrive in France,” http://www.eastsussexww1.org.uk/american-soldiers-arrive-france/

Skinner Jr., Harold A., “American Expeditionary Force,”

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/american_expeditionary_forces

D-Day Fact Sheet, National WWII Museum,

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/sites/default/files/2019-03/D-Day-75-Fact-Sheet_0.pdf

WWII Fast Facts, https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/world/world-war-ii-fast-facts/index.html

A Brief History of the U.S. Army in World War II, https://history.army.mil/brochures/brief/overview.htm

The Great War Project

Killing the Angel of Peace - Mike Shuster

http://greatwarproject.org/2019/06/02/american-troops-in-asia/

Historians Corner

War Memoirs From WWI: “Siegfried Sassoon” - Dr. Edward Lengel

http://www.edwardlengel.com/siegfried-sassoons-memoirs-of-george-sherston-2-best-wwi-account/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/

http://bit.ly/2tILSQI

World War I - NOW

Update From the States

Hawaii and their WW1 Symposium

Symposium

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/hawaii-wwi-centennial-events/eventdetail/69279/hawaii-wwi-symposium.html

Call For Papers

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/6185-hawai-i-world-war-i-symposium-and-activities-may-26-28.html

http://ww1cc.org/hawaii

http://hawaiiworldwar1.org/col-ret-arthur-tulak-on-kssk/

http://hawaiiworldwar1.org/news/

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/hawaii-wwi-centennial-home.html

Education

Education in 1919 - Host

“National Assessment of Adult Literacy,” National Center for Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp

Roser, Max and Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban, “Literacy,” Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/literacy

Kaestle, Carl F., “History of Literacy and the History of Readers,” Review of Research in Education, Vol. 12, (1985), p. 11-53 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1167145?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents

College Entrance Examination Board, “Examination Questions: 1916-1920,” https://archive.org/stream/englishgerman00collrich#page/n3/mode/2up

“The 1910s education,” https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/culture-magazines/1910s-education-topics-news