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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
January 2016 – Aviation Museum: Lexington, KY The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has a display on aviation fighter “aces” from Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots, which we have presented as an outreach program for the museum. There is also an aircraft restorer in the state that has a flying Curtiss “Jenny”, one of the very, very few that flies, and a type of plane that was one of the few American-built aircraft that had an effect on the aviation portion of the ...
Contact: jrm@aviationky.org
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
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WW1 Oil Paintings Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 - Saturday, September 30, 2017
An exhibit of oil paintings of vintage WWI aircraft and WWI recruitment and war bonds posters at the C. Burr Artz Central Library.
Contact: Margaret Carty, Executive Director Maryland Library Association, 410-947-5090
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The National Museum of the United States Navy presents a special exhibit in commemoration of the World War I centennial. “Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy” features more than twenty posters that were used for recruitment, support, propaganda, and advertising and brought forth the ideas and values of a nation.
After political events and attacks on our interests, the United States entered the war in 1917. Recruitment was essential for maintaining a fighting force. The call to arms promoted patriotism, a willingness to serve, advancement in education or travel opportunities. During World War I, all of these ...
Contact: Moneé Cottman, monee.cottman@navy.mil, museumnews@navy.mil (main contact)
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Graphic Matters: George Bellows and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
In the decade before his death, the American artist George Bellows (1882–1925) embraced lithography, a printmaking technique in which the artist draws directly onto a stone or plate with an oil-based medium. Of the more than 170 lithographs that Bellows produced, twenty belong to his “War Series,” which was immediately controversial when published in 1918.As an illustrator for left-wing periodicals such as the Masses, Bellows was accustomed to addressing social issues pointedly, but he condemned “obvious, heavy propaganda.” Nevertheless, in 1918, with the United States at war, the former pacifist completed a series of prints, drawings, and monumental paintings that was ...
Contact: https://www.colby.edu/museum/exhibition/graphic-matters-george-bellows/
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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That Struggle Over There: Forest Lawn, Buffalo, and the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit explores Buffalo and Erie County's contributions to the First World War through the lens of Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Informative displays on:
•The contributions made on the home front•How industries converted to war production•How WWI changed the face of warfare and the history of the 20th century•Information on veterans interred at Forest Lawn and the repatriation of remains
Objects and artifacts on loan from private collectors include:
•Uniforms, helmets, and field kits of American soldiers and marines•Postcards, photographs, and letters sent home from France•Weapons used in trench warfare (select dates only)
Contact: mgolebiewski@forest-lawn.com
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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WW1 America
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The World War I era—1914 to 1919—was a transformational time for America. The nation emerged as a confident global superpower while deep divisions and conflict at home threatened to tear the nation apart.
This major new exhibit created by the Minnesota Historical Society opens during the centennial of America's involvement in WW1. Through original artifacts, images, voices, music, interactives and multimedia, WW1 America tells the extraordinary stories of Americans during a transformational era in our history.
Contact: boxoffice@mnhs.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Friday, September 01, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Keeping the Promise for Another 100 Years
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Fort Howard Community Association is commemorating the centennial of the Great War with the "Keeping the Promise for Another 100 Years," World War I M1906 4.7-inch field artillery gun restoration project. The guns will be dedicated to service and sacrifice of our veterans at 10:00 A.M on Maryland Defender's Day September 2, 2017, at the Historic Landmarked Fort Howard Park in Fort Howard, Maryland 21052.
After the dedication ceremony displays, exhibits, and re-enactments will be through out the day. The Maryland Army National Guard professionally restored the guns at their state facility located in Aberdeen, Maryland. Chesapeake Wood Working of Baltimore, ...
Contact: mail@forthoward.org
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Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The National Museum of the United States Navy presents a special exhibit in commemoration of the World War I centennial. “Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy” features more than twenty posters that were used for recruitment, support, propaganda, and advertising and brought forth the ideas and values of a nation.
After political events and attacks on our interests, the United States entered the war in 1917. Recruitment was essential for maintaining a fighting force. The call to arms promoted patriotism, a willingness to serve, advancement in education or travel opportunities. During World War I, all of these ...
Contact: Moneé Cottman, monee.cottman@navy.mil, museumnews@navy.mil (main contact)
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Graphic Matters: George Bellows and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
In the decade before his death, the American artist George Bellows (1882–1925) embraced lithography, a printmaking technique in which the artist draws directly onto a stone or plate with an oil-based medium. Of the more than 170 lithographs that Bellows produced, twenty belong to his “War Series,” which was immediately controversial when published in 1918.As an illustrator for left-wing periodicals such as the Masses, Bellows was accustomed to addressing social issues pointedly, but he condemned “obvious, heavy propaganda.” Nevertheless, in 1918, with the United States at war, the former pacifist completed a series of prints, drawings, and monumental paintings that was ...
Contact: https://www.colby.edu/museum/exhibition/graphic-matters-george-bellows/
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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WW1 America
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The World War I era—1914 to 1919—was a transformational time for America. The nation emerged as a confident global superpower while deep divisions and conflict at home threatened to tear the nation apart.
This major new exhibit created by the Minnesota Historical Society opens during the centennial of America's involvement in WW1. Through original artifacts, images, voices, music, interactives and multimedia, WW1 America tells the extraordinary stories of Americans during a transformational era in our history.
Contact: boxoffice@mnhs.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Saturday, September 02, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The National Museum of the United States Navy presents a special exhibit in commemoration of the World War I centennial. “Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy” features more than twenty posters that were used for recruitment, support, propaganda, and advertising and brought forth the ideas and values of a nation.
After political events and attacks on our interests, the United States entered the war in 1917. Recruitment was essential for maintaining a fighting force. The call to arms promoted patriotism, a willingness to serve, advancement in education or travel opportunities. During World War I, all of these ...
Contact: Moneé Cottman, monee.cottman@navy.mil, museumnews@navy.mil (main contact)
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Graphic Matters: George Bellows and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
In the decade before his death, the American artist George Bellows (1882–1925) embraced lithography, a printmaking technique in which the artist draws directly onto a stone or plate with an oil-based medium. Of the more than 170 lithographs that Bellows produced, twenty belong to his “War Series,” which was immediately controversial when published in 1918.As an illustrator for left-wing periodicals such as the Masses, Bellows was accustomed to addressing social issues pointedly, but he condemned “obvious, heavy propaganda.” Nevertheless, in 1918, with the United States at war, the former pacifist completed a series of prints, drawings, and monumental paintings that was ...
Contact: https://www.colby.edu/museum/exhibition/graphic-matters-george-bellows/
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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WW1 America
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The World War I era—1914 to 1919—was a transformational time for America. The nation emerged as a confident global superpower while deep divisions and conflict at home threatened to tear the nation apart.
This major new exhibit created by the Minnesota Historical Society opens during the centennial of America's involvement in WW1. Through original artifacts, images, voices, music, interactives and multimedia, WW1 America tells the extraordinary stories of Americans during a transformational era in our history.
Contact: boxoffice@mnhs.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Sunday, September 03, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The National Museum of the United States Navy presents a special exhibit in commemoration of the World War I centennial. “Over There: World War I Posters of the U.S. Navy” features more than twenty posters that were used for recruitment, support, propaganda, and advertising and brought forth the ideas and values of a nation.
After political events and attacks on our interests, the United States entered the war in 1917. Recruitment was essential for maintaining a fighting force. The call to arms promoted patriotism, a willingness to serve, advancement in education or travel opportunities. During World War I, all of these ...
Contact: Moneé Cottman, monee.cottman@navy.mil, museumnews@navy.mil (main contact)
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Calumet City Liberty Parade
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:30am - 12:30pm
The annual Calumet City, Illinois parade shall be dedicated this year to the commemoration of America's centennial anniversary of entry into the First World War.
Organizations and veterans units who wish to participate are welcome. There is no fee to take part in the parade, but advance registration is required.
Contact: Gene Popa, gene@mycmpd.com
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Monday, September 04, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Paducah During World War 1
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
January 2016 – December 2017 McCracken County Public Library: Paducah, KY The McCracken County Public Library Local and Family History Department hosts an in-house display highlighting Paducah and its citizens during the First World War Included is information on Paducah residents and their efforts during the war as well as excerpts from the Paducah Evening Sun highlighting all enlisted men from McCracken County. For more information visit the McCracken County Public Library, 555 Washington St Paducah, KY 42003 or call 270-442-2510 Ext 124. The exhibit is currently on display and will remain through the next year.
Contact: 270-442-2510 Ext 124.
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The First World War and The Valley
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 - Sunday, October 15, 2017 08:00am
OVER THERE and OVER THERE
The First World War and The Valley
The California Military Museum is working in collaboration with the Museum on Main, and the Amador Livermore Valley Historical Society, to put on a display honoring the troops from the Pleasanton/Livermore area who served in the Army or Navy in World War One.
It will also cover the home front - recruiting, bond drives and more. Even the popular music of the period (lots of sheet music).
Plus, on WED, 6 SEP, please feel free to join the public reception.
For a special treat, there will be a "living mannequin" in WW I ...
Contact: Fred Rutledge COL (CA) CA, CSMR, California Military Museum Director
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War 1 Touring Cars
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
January 2017 – December 2018 Swope’s Cars of Yesteryear Museum: Elizabethtown, KY Swope’s Cars of Yesteryear Museum will display and feature two WW1 Dodge touring cars like those used in France in 1917 and 1918. They were often on the front lines carrying combat officers and sometimes wounded soldiers. POC: Bill Swope. Address: 1100 North Dixie Avenue Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Website: www.swopemuseum.com Ph: 270-766-9772
Contact: Bill Swope 270-766-9772
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Montana In the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
Montana In the Great War
A series of museum displays depicting Montanans participation in World War One. Centers around two units from Montana, the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st (INF) Division a National Guard Division and the 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division (Wild West Division); In addition the nearly 10,000 volunteers and 28,000 draftees who were in service from the State.
Contact: info@montanamilitarymuseum.org
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Thursday, September 07, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
January 2016 – Aviation Museum: Lexington, KY The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has a display on aviation fighter “aces” from Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots, which we have presented as an outreach program for the museum. There is also an aircraft restorer in the state that has a flying Curtiss “Jenny”, one of the very, very few that flies, and a type of plane that was one of the few American-built aircraft that had an effect on the aviation portion of the ...
Contact: jrm@aviationky.org
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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100th Reunion of the 35th Infantry Division Association
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The 35th Infantry Division celebrates their 100th Anniversary with a reunion and conference at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is welcome to attend the capstone event of this reunion, a banquet Saturday evening, 9 September 2017, at 6:30 pm. There will be a memorial service and awards and recognition and a live feed from the Division, currently deployed in support of operations in the Middle East. Details will be posted on the 35th Infantry Division Association facebook page and the association web site (http://www.35divassn.org)
Contact: Robert Windham R.Earl.Windham@gmail.com
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Friday, September 08, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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100th Reunion of the 35th Infantry Division Association
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The 35th Infantry Division celebrates their 100th Anniversary with a reunion and conference at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is welcome to attend the capstone event of this reunion, a banquet Saturday evening, 9 September 2017, at 6:30 pm. There will be a memorial service and awards and recognition and a live feed from the Division, currently deployed in support of operations in the Middle East. Details will be posted on the 35th Infantry Division Association facebook page and the association web site (http://www.35divassn.org)
Contact: Robert Windham R.Earl.Windham@gmail.com
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Forgotten Stories of WW1: American Legion & Red Cross
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am
Americans, led by Herbert Hoover, launched massive relief efforts during World War I. Many efforts carried over into the post-war years, like the emergence of the American Legion, to care for veterans in large numbers, and the Red Cross, which mobilized in Europe during the war and again in the U.S. against the influenza pandemic. Phil Hansen of the Minnesota Red Cross and Al Zdon of the Minnesota American Legion will provide a local context for this national story.
Forgotten Stories is a new series that brings together nationally known historians to explore forgotten WW1-era stories of the individuals and organizations ...
Contact: boxoffice@mnhs.org
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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Curator Talk: Researching World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 02:00pm - 02:30pm
Join archivist Tom Rieder to learn about materials in our collection that can help you with World War I research and related family history, such as rosters, photographs, posters, books honoring service members and newspaper scrapbooks. You'll also learn how to use our Ohio Memory and Ohio History Connection websites in your research.
Contact: For more information, please call (800) 686-6124
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Sergeant York (1941)
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 02:00pm - 04:00pm
Sergeant York (1941)
This is part of the free film festival on Remembering World War I.
Contact: histsoc@nd.gov
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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African American Doctors of WWI
Dates: Saturday, September 09, 2017 06:00pm - 07:00pm
In World War I, 104 African American doctorsvolunteered to care for the 40,000 men ofthe Army’s 92nd and 93rd Divisions. AuthorsDoug Fisher and Joann Buckley will discussthe contributions of these men to the blackcommunities of 20th century America. Bookswill be available for purchase and signing.
Contact: marre@abmc.gov
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Aviation Museum of Kentucky
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Aviation fighter "aces" from Kentucky will be on display at the Aviation Museum of Kentucky at the Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots.
Contact: 859-231-1219, www.aviationky.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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100th Reunion of the 35th Infantry Division Association
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The 35th Infantry Division celebrates their 100th Anniversary with a reunion and conference at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. The public is welcome to attend the capstone event of this reunion, a banquet Saturday evening, 9 September 2017, at 6:30 pm. There will be a memorial service and awards and recognition and a live feed from the Division, currently deployed in support of operations in the Middle East. Details will be posted on the 35th Infantry Division Association facebook page and the association web site (http://www.35divassn.org)
Contact: Robert Windham R.Earl.Windham@gmail.com
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Sketching the Skies: Penrose Vass Stout, Alabama's WWI Artist-Aviator
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Alabamian Penrose Vass Stout left a richly illustrated history of his service as a World War I aviator through his sketchbook and his letters home. Born in Montgomery in 1887, Stout practiced architecture in Florida and New York until enlisting in March 1917. A member of the 1st Pursuit Group, 27th Aero Squadron, he was shot down near Charny during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918. Stout received the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a German artillery installation and battling five enemy pilots.
In 2014, Nathaniel Stout donated his grandfather’s sketchbook and letters to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...
Contact: 334-240-4333
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Swope's Cars of Yesteryear Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am
Swope's Cars of Yesteryear Museum in Elizabethtown, KY, will display and feature two WWI Dodge touring cars like those used in France in 1917 and 1918. They were often on the front lines carrying combat officers and sometimes wounded soldiers.
Contact: Bill Swope
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Sunday, September 10, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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World War I Commemorative Reading Series
Dates: Monday, September 11, 2017 01:00pm - 02:00pm
The participants in the World War I Commemoration Reading Series will be offered opportunities to read and discuss novels and memoirs that explore triumph, patriotism, loss, separation, death, and remembrance. The second in the series of six books is Erich Maria Remarque's book All Quiet on the Western Front. The discussion will be facilitated by Laurel Watson.
The story of a war is much more than the recital of facts, battles, strategies, dates, casualties, treaties, etc. No matter the impacts of war upon nations and the world order, the underlying story of a war is its immediate and long lasting impacts on ...
Contact: Laurel Watson, Curator, 970-276-4380
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Film Screening: In Love and War
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00pm - 02:30pm
The Scotch Plains Public Library will show movies about World War I each Friday in October. The third film will be In Love and War (PG-13, 115 min). The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece “A Farewell To arms”. A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Fighting Man in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Reenactor and military collector John Niemiec will discuss events that led to World War I and display uniforms, equipment and memorabilia of the conflict.
Contact: Deborah Mercer, dmercer@njstatelib.org
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Montana In the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
Montana In the Great War
A series of museum displays depicting Montanans participation in World War One. Centers around two units from Montana, the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st (INF) Division a National Guard Division and the 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division (Wild West Division); In addition the nearly 10,000 volunteers and 28,000 draftees who were in service from the State.
Contact: info@montanamilitarymuseum.org
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Iowans & World War I: Somewhere in France/Somewhere in Iowa:
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 09:30am - 08:00pm
The Ross & Elizabeth Baty Monticello Public Library is hosting a Authentic World War I Memorabilia Exhibit starting August 29, 2017 through September 14, 2017. The exhibit includes military items issued to Private First Class Joseph Nordhues in WWI and WWI poster on loan from the State of Iowa. On September 14, 2017 at 6:30 pm, State Curator Leo Landis will discuss the Iowa experience in World War I including Iowans in service and at home. He will discuss anti-Germanism and the patriotism of Iowans across the state and in Jones County. He will also discuss the aftermath of the ...
Contact: mkremer@monticello.lib.ia.us
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Cemetery Walk
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 02:00pm - 04:00pm
Stroll through the Otterbein Cemetery and hear stories of local veterans and heroes of World War I, in commemoration of the centennial of the United States entry into the "war to end all wars."
Contact: For more information, please call: 614-882-7277
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Meet the author event with Michael Kazin and his "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918"
Dates: Thursday, September 14, 2017 07:00pm - 08:30pm
In "War Against War," Michael Kazin brings us into the ranks of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition up to that point in US history. They came from a variety of backgrounds: wealthy and middle and working class, urban and rural, white and black, Christian and Jewish and atheist. They mounted street demonstrations and popular exhibitions, attracted prominent leaders from the labor and suffrage movements, ran peace candidates for local and federal office, and founded new organizations that endured beyond the cause. For almost three years, they helped prevent Congress from authorizing a massive increase in the ...
Contact: mailto:dkresh@arlingtonva.us
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
January 2016 – Aviation Museum: Lexington, KY The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has a display on aviation fighter “aces” from Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots, which we have presented as an outreach program for the museum. There is also an aircraft restorer in the state that has a flying Curtiss “Jenny”, one of the very, very few that flies, and a type of plane that was one of the few American-built aircraft that had an effect on the aviation portion of the ...
Contact: jrm@aviationky.org
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Save Texas History Symposium: Texas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
This year marks the centennial of American involvement in World War I, in which Texas, and Texans, had a major impact on the American war effort at home and abroad.
This event features 18 speakers over two days, discussing various aspects of Texas and the Great War.
Registration cost is $80 (or $65 by using the promo code "PERSHING" during registration.
All attendees will receive two books from Texas A&M University Press, and a commemorative map from the Texas General Land Office that features 74 people and placed that are significant to Texas in World War I.
Contact: james.harkins@glo.texas.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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The Great War Alliance Forum
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 08:30am - 03:00pm
Government and private-sector leaders will join with war historians, military leaders, and globalists to explore the trilateral alliance among France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From the entanglement of treaties to strong undertones of partisanship and isolationism, featured speakers and a series of panel discussions will analyze the key transatlantic relationships during and immediately following the Great War with the aim of applying the lessons learned to critical global issues today.
Contact: Forums@meridian.org
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Gallipoli Screening
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:00pm
Gallipoli, 1981
Gallipoli tells the story of the Australian Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey) in World War I. One of the few Hollywood movies to illustrate that World War I took place not only on the Western Front in France, Gallipoli tells the story of this pivotal battle through the experience of two young Australian men who travel halfway around the globe to fight for their country. Gallipoli powerfully depicts the nature of WWI trench warfare and the sacrifice so many made in this important battle.
Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance. Reserve tickets now.
About the Film Series
Movies ...
Contact: (703) 572-4118
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Gallipoli Screening
Dates: Friday, September 15, 2017 07:00pm
Gallipoli, 1981
Gallipoli tells the story of the Australian Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey) in World War I. One of the few Hollywood movies to illustrate that World War I took place not only on the Western Front in France, Gallipoli tells the story of this pivotal battle through the experience of two young Australian men who travel halfway around the globe to fight for their country. Gallipoli powerfully depicts the nature of WWI trench warfare and the sacrifice so many made in this important battle.
Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance. Reserve tickets now.
About the Film Series
Movies ...
Contact: (202) 633-2214
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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World War I in Film Series – Lawrence of Arabia
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 - Friday, September 22, 2017 01:00am - 04:00pm
World War I in Film Series – Lawrence of Arabia
City of Redlands - City Hall
WWI In Film SeriesFree Screening of Lawrence of ArabiaSaturday, September 16, 2017 at 1pmThe Contemporary Club173 S. Eureka StreetRedlands. CA 92373
The Contemporary Club is located behind the A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine.Register: http://conta.cc/2vVtlQS
In commemoration of the centennial of the Great War, A.K. Smiley Public Library is hosting a film series, WWI In Film. The next screening is Lawrence of Arabia on Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 1pm. The screening is at the Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka St., Redlands. CA 92373
Contact: (909) 798-7632 (A. K. Smiley Public Library)
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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Save Texas History Symposium: Texas and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
This year marks the centennial of American involvement in World War I, in which Texas, and Texans, had a major impact on the American war effort at home and abroad.
This event features 18 speakers over two days, discussing various aspects of Texas and the Great War.
Registration cost is $80 (or $65 by using the promo code "PERSHING" during registration.
All attendees will receive two books from Texas A&M University Press, and a commemorative map from the Texas General Land Office that features 74 people and placed that are significant to Texas in World War I.
Contact: james.harkins@glo.texas.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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Symposium: “The Great War Over Here: Stories from the Home Front.”
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 04:30pm
Contact: atlanta.archives@nara.gov
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Camp Doughboy: World War One History Weekend
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
Join us for our Second Annual WWI History Weekend! Take the ferry to historic Fort Jay at Governors Island National Monument in New York Harbor. See more than fifty reenactors, vintage WWI-era vehicles, attend free talks by leading authorities of the Great War, and learn more about the war that changed the world — and gave birth to modern America.
Contact: ryan.hegg@worldwar1centennial.org
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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World War 1 Veterans Cemetery Tour
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:30am - 12:00pm
Guided Tour of Morris Hill Cemetery on Boise's Bench where the WW1 veterans are buried in their own section. The history of the veterans will be discussed, and that of their life once they returned home to
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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Anne Penland, WWI Nurse Anesthetist
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 01:00pm - 04:00pm
Dedication of marker honoring the WWI service of Nurse Anesthetist Anne Penland, who served in the Third Battle of Ypres, July 23-September 10, 1917, and in France from May 1917-February 1919. Speakers will represent the American Association of Anesthetists, Red Cross, VA, and Asheville, NC, history.
Hosted by Edward Buncombe Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which Anne Penland was a longtime member. The program will include live music, a color guard, and excellent speakers from historical and nursing-related organizations. This is a great reason to come and visit Asheville, NC.
Contact: Luann Nelson, 131luann@gmail.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Ensemble Calliopée
Dates: Saturday, September 16, 2017 08:00pm
On the occasion of the centennial of the entry of the American troops into the First World War, Ensemble Calliopée prepared a musical performance, in the style of the wind quintet and evoking the American brass bands. It highlights the commitment of American composers of that era, including musician soldiers.The influence of jazz and its syncopated rhythms will create a link between the Old Continent and the New World that listen and inspire each other. Frenchman Claude Debussy incorporates in his Children's Corner cake-walk rhythms while Samuel Barber, a few decades later, will record his Summer Music in this legacy ...
Contact: Frank Lesjean
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Camp Doughboy: World War One History Weekend
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
Join us for our Second Annual WWI History Weekend! Take the ferry to historic Fort Jay at Governors Island National Monument in New York Harbor. See more than fifty reenactors, vintage WWI-era vehicles, attend free talks by leading authorities of the Great War, and learn more about the war that changed the world — and gave birth to modern America.
Contact: ryan.hegg@worldwar1centennial.org
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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The Great Crusade: World War I and the Legacy of the American Revolution
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
The United States entered World War I to defend freedom and democracy against tyranny and oppression, inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution and the memory of the Revolutionary War. The war transformed the nation's political and cultural relationship with Europe and shaped a new determination to spread the principles of the American Revolution around the world. The Great Crusade features materials illustrating the connection between the Revolution and World War I drawn from the Society's collections, including posters, sheet music, and recordings as well as other printed works, art, and artifacts.
Contact: Kendall Casey, kcasey@societyofthecincinnati.org; admin@societyofthecincinnati.org (main contact)
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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De Harlem à l’Argonne
Dates: Sunday, September 17, 2017 05:00pm
L’Union Musicale de Suippes performs a repertoire of music that accompanied the soldiers going to the front and maintained the morale of the back."Sambre-et-Meuse", "La Marche Lorraine" are emblematic military songs and marches played by musicians who were also soldiers mobilized on the front often as stretcher bearers.1917 marks the entry of American soldiers into the conflict, accompanied by the music of Harlem Hellfighters of James Reese Europe, jazz: the confrontation of two musics and two cultures. The trombonist Matthias Mahler accompanied the Union musicale de Suippes to reinterpret and arrange this American repertoire, and thus propose a mirror reading ...
Contact: Frank Lesjean
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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Prelude to War: The Events That Drew the U.S. into WWI
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 07:00am - 08:30pm
Professor Timothy White ‘s lecture will orient the audience and give context to the period of time from April 1917- November 1918 that will be covered in subsequent lectures, readings, discussions and films. Focus will be on the developments that led up to US involvement in the war and the major events of the war up to US entry.
Timothy White, Assistant Professor of History, New Jersey City University
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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Prelude to War: The Events That Drew the U.S. into WWI
Dates: Monday, September 18, 2017 07:00pm - 08:30pm
Professor Timothy White ‘s lecture will orient the audience and give context to the period of time from April 1917- November 1918 that will be covered in subsequent lectures, readings, discussions and films. Focus will be on the developments that led up to US involvement in the war and the major events of the war up to US entry.
Timothy White, Assistant Professor of History, New Jersey City University
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Great War Memorial Cruise
Dates: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War - A 6 Night Commemorative River Cruise in Belgium
Departures: September 13 & October 3, 2017
OSTEND - BRUGES - KORTRIJK - COMINES - LILLE
Day 1: OSTENDPassengers are welcome to board our ship in Ostend starting at 6:00 p.m. After you've comfortably settled in your cabin, we'll introduce our crew during our welcome cocktail party and have dinner on board.
Day 2: OSTEND - BRUGESWe'll spend the morning cruising before arriving late morning in Bruges. We'll set off for an excursion to this picturesque city. Well-known for its lace production and filled with a quaint, old-fashioned charm, Bruges has been ...
Contact: jmcglade@croisieurope.com
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Chautauqua Speaker- Emma Goldman
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 10:30pm
Emma Goldman, Portrayed by Sally Drucker.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist and labor organizer known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. In 1917, Goldman and a companion were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were deported—along with hundreds of others—to the Soviet Union.
Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood Campus, The Den. Admission: Free
Contact: Betty Jo Brenner brenner@coloradohumanities.org
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Georgia World War I Centennial Commission Meeting
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm - 03:00pm
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 12 noon – 3:00 p.m.Georgia Public Library Services Offices 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta (off Clairmont just north of I-85)
Contact:
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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Montana, 1917: Time of Trouble, Time of Change
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 - Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Montana Historical Society invites everyone to reflect on how World War I impacted life under the Big Sky at the 44th annual Montana History Conference. Titled Montana, 1917: Time of Trouble, Time of Change, the conference will be held in Helena on September 21–23, 2017. Registration closes September 15. The conference features special workshops for educators and genealogists, sessions on a wide range of topics, and keynote presentations. Sessions will look at both those who supported the war and those who opposed it. After the United States officially joined the Great War in April 1917, Montanans answered every call: ...
Contact: jlewis@mt.gov
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Montana In the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
Montana In the Great War
A series of museum displays depicting Montanans participation in World War One. Centers around two units from Montana, the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st (INF) Division a National Guard Division and the 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division (Wild West Division); In addition the nearly 10,000 volunteers and 28,000 draftees who were in service from the State.
Contact: info@montanamilitarymuseum.org
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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Chautauqua Speakers-Debate with Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:30pm - 02:00pm
Emma Goldman, Portrayed by Sally Drucker.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist and labor organizer known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. In 1917, Goldman and a companion were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were deported—along with hundreds of others—to the Soviet Union.
Eugene Debs, Portrayed by James Walsh.
Eugene Debs was an activist who worked in the labor movement in the early 1900s, traveling around the nation giving talks to workers, etc. In his outspoken views he suggested that wars are fought for the ...
Contact: Betty Jo Brenner brenner@coloradohumanities.org
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A Century of Commemoration: How Alabama Has Remembered the Great War, 1920 – 2017
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 01:00pm - 02:30pm
Troy University invites you to the panel discussion, "A Century of Commemoration: How Alabama Has Remembered the Great War, 1920 – 2017." This event is free and open to the public, with a special invitation to our communities' veterans and currently serving military personnel.
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Date: Thursday, September 21
Place: Hawkins-Adams-Long Hall of Honor, Troy Campus, Troy University
The panel is an event of “World War I and America,” which is part of a two-year initiative funded by the Library of America, presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History and the National World War I Museum ...
Contact: Dr. Marty Olliff molliff@troy.edu
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Thursday, September 21, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
January 2016 – Aviation Museum: Lexington, KY The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has a display on aviation fighter “aces” from Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots, which we have presented as an outreach program for the museum. There is also an aircraft restorer in the state that has a flying Curtiss “Jenny”, one of the very, very few that flies, and a type of plane that was one of the few American-built aircraft that had an effect on the aviation portion of the ...
Contact: jrm@aviationky.org
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Dedication of 26th Division Memorial Plaques
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am
Event honoring the centennial of the organization of the 26th "Yankee" Division at Camp Framingham.
Contact: leonid.e.kondratiuk.nfg@mail.mil
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Chautauqua Speakers- Debate with Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 04:00pm - 05:30pm
Emma Goldman, Portrayed by Sally Drucker.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist and labor organizer known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. In 1917, Goldman and a companion were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were deported—along with hundreds of others—to the Soviet Union.
Eugene Debs, Portrayed by James Walsh.
Eugene Debs was an activist who worked in the labor movement in the early 1900s, traveling around the nation giving talks to workers, etc. In his outspoken views he suggested that wars are fought for the ...
Contact: Betty Jo Brenner brenner@coloradohumanities.org
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WWI Speaker Presentation- Dr. Michael Kazin
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 07:00pm
The Anti War Movement in the United States, Presented by Dr. Michael Kazin. Dr. Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author, most recently of, War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914- 1918 (2017), American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2011) and A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006), and a coeditor of Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an ideal (2006). He is the editor-in-chief of the two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2010) and also serves as the editor of Dissent magazine and an online ...
Contact: Betty Jo Brenner brenner@coloradohumanities.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Friday, September 22, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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Here Come the Doughboys! Tracing Your WWI Military Ancestors Workshop
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 09:30am - 04:00pm
Learn strategies and resources for researching your WWI military ancestors with sessions on service records, nursing, and alien naturalization files.
The program will be available as a free streaming webinar on YouTube! Visit fountaindale.org/youtube.
Additional information and handouts available online at fountaindalegenealogy.org/webinars.
This program is part of World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Contact: ddudek@fountaindale.org
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Centennial Commemoration of WW1 Chandler Field
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
Hosted by Friends of the Philadelphia Seaplane Base 9N2
Sunday Sep. 24, 2017 hours: 12pm-3pm
Contact: Tony Selletti 484-844-7171
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Author Presentation: Entering Service, Redlands In World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 11:00am - 01:00pm
"Entering Service" from the book "Redlands in World War I"Join us at the A.K. Smiley Public Library for an author presentation titled "Entering Service" by Ann Deegan, one of the co-authors of the book "Redlands in World War I"
Upon declaration of war on April 6, 1917, Redlands mobilized immediately. The local National Guard Company G departed on April 4 to Arcadia and quickly relocated to San Diego. Residents worked to establish a chapter of the American Red Cross and formed war committees through the YMCA, YWCA and Salvation Army. Thousands of residents pulled together to serve the war at home, ...
Contact: Maria Carrillo Colato or Don McCue, A.K. Smiley Public Library
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Musiques américaines
Dates: Saturday, September 23, 2017 08:00pm
When James Reese Europe and his orchestra Harlem Hellfighters landed in France in 1917, it was the first time that jazz and Afro-American music posed their melodies in Europe and that they were brought to the ears of the French. Start of a great adventure.Since the beginning of the 20th century, the United States has been the melting pot of all the music that still irrigates our cultures: blues, jazz, rock'n'roll, folk, rhythm'n'blues, Soul, the funk ...Bassist and singer Marcel Ebbers tackles this rich repertoire to take viewers to this long and beautiful history of American music: a didactic and ...
Contact: Marcel Ebbers
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Centennial Commemoration of WW1 Chandler Field
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
Hosted by Friends of the Philadelphia Seaplane Base 9N2
Sunday Sep. 24, 2017 hours: 12pm-3pm
Contact: Tony Selletti 484-844-7171
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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World War I Posters
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 11:30am - 11:45am
A century ago, troops were fighting "over there" while Americans at home were being asked to do their part to help win "the Great War." See World War I posters from our collection and learn about the symbols used to inspire Americans into action.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Doughboy Monument Re-Dedication
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 01:00pm - 03:00pm
The Morton Grove Historical Society is pleased to announce a ceremony to officially re-dedicate the Village’s iconic monument, the “Doughboy” at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 24, 2017. On behalf of the Society, I would like to invite you to attend.
As part of the country’s centennial of entering the First World War, we’ve undertaken a renovation of the monument and are eager to share this restored statue. The “Doughboy” has stood silent guard on the same spot for almost a century, joined 30 years later by the Morton Grove Public Library (6140 Lincoln Avenue).
In addition to this ceremony, the Morton ...
Contact: MGHistorical@gmail.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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De Harlem à l’Argonne
Dates: Sunday, September 24, 2017 08:00pm
L’Union Musicale de Suippes interprets a repertoire of music that accompanied the soldiers going to the front and maintained the morale of the back."Sambre-et-Meuse", "La Marche Lorraine" are emblematic military musics, marches played by musicians who were also soldiers mobilized on the front often as stretcher bearers.1917 marks the entry of American soldiers into the conflict, accompanied by the music of Harlem Hellfighters of James Reese Europe, jazz: the confrontation of two musics and two cultures. The trombonist Matthias Mahler accompanied the Union musicale de Suippes to reinterpret and arrange this American repertoire, and thus propose a mirror reading of ...
Contact: Frank Lesjean
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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Over There: Men and Women from Newark Serve on the Western Front
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 06:00pm
A program sponsored by the Newark History Society and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The presenter is John Zinn, Chairman of the Board, New Jersey Historical Society. The program will take place in the Chase Room at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Open to the public at no cost. RSVPs requested. Please RSVP by September 21 to NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 917-254-5028.
Contact: NewarkHisotrySociety@verizon.net or call 917-254-5028
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War Illustration: A Straight Unbroken Line
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 07:00pm - 08:30pm
Propaganda Posters of WW1 -- Dennis Dittrich, illustrator, and Associate Professor of Art, New Jersey City University
Observations from an Illustrator Embedding with Warriors in Training and on The Front Lines -- Victor Juhasz, illustrator
Dennis Dittrich will speak about the work of illustrators during WW I. Dittrich served as Society of Illustrators President from 2008 to 2014. He is an active member of the Society’s Air Force Art Program with work in the USAF art collection. Currently an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University, Dittrich also teaches The History of American Illustration at Fashion Institute of technology in NYC.
Victor Juhasz has been ...
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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War Illustration: A Straight Unbroken Line
Dates: Monday, September 25, 2017 07:00pm - 08:30pm
Propaganda Posters of WW1 -- Dennis Dittrich, illustrator, and Associate Professor of Art, New Jersey City University
Observations from an Illustrator Embedding with Warriors in Training and on The Front Lines -- Victor Juhasz, illustrator
Dennis Dittrich will speak about the work of illustrators during WW I. Dittrich served as Society of Illustrators President from 2008 to 2014. He is an active member of the Society’s Air Force Art Program with work in the USAF art collection. Currently an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University, Dittrich also teaches The History of American Illustration at Fashion Institute of technology in NYC.
Victor Juhasz ...
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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African American Doctors of WWI
Dates: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 06:00pm - 07:00pm
In World War I, 104 African American doctors volunteered to care for the 40,000 men of the Army’s 92nd and 93rd Divisions. Authors Doug Fisher and Joann Buckley will discuss the contributions of these men to the black communities of 20th century America. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Contact: www.medicalmuseum.mil
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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New Jersey World War I Monuments
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Historian and researcher Erik Burro will share stories about many of the World War I monuments located throughout the Garden State.
Contact: Deborah Mercer, dmercer@njstatelib.org
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering the Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (334)863-2632
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Montana In the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
Montana In the Great War
A series of museum displays depicting Montanans participation in World War One. Centers around two units from Montana, the 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st (INF) Division a National Guard Division and the 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division (Wild West Division); In addition the nearly 10,000 volunteers and 28,000 draftees who were in service from the State.
Contact: info@montanamilitarymuseum.org
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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371st Infantry Regimemt 93rd Division (Colored), World War I, Military Marker Unveiling
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
In Tribute and Honor to the Gallant African American heroes of the 371st Infantry Regiment 93rd Division (Colored) of World War I.
Richland County, South Carolina is where the story of the 371st Infantry Regiment began. One hundred years later, the granddaughter of an African American, World War I Soldier of the 371st Infantry Regiment 93rd Division (Colored) has secured the first marker in the United States to honor the Regiment’s heroic service on the Western Front.The 371st Regiment of the 93rd Division was formed at Camp Jackson in August of 1917. They were the only black Infantry regiment drafted from ...
Contact: sonya-grantham@outlook.com
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Combat Paper and Frontline Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 07:00pm - 08:30pm
Veterans share their artwork and writing that has been created on paper made from re-purposed military uniforms. These projects have been created via Combat Paper NJ, a unique participatory art project that offers artistic tools and professional instruction for all, providing a space to use art and writing to explore experiences, and ultimately share them publicly, all through papermaking.Through public workshops, this handmade paper creates a platform for veterans and non-veterans to come together and share stories, providing a “new language."
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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Combat Paper and Frontline Arts
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 07:00pm
Veterans share their artwork and writing that has been created on paper made from re-purposed military uniforms. These projects have been created via Combat Paper NJ, a unique participatory art project that offers artistic tools and professional instruction for all, providing a space to use art and writing to explore experiences, and ultimately share them publicly, all through papermaking. Through public workshops, this handmade paper creates a platform for veterans and non-veterans to come together and share stories, providing a “new language."
Contact: Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Thursday, September 28, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
January 2016 – Aviation Museum: Lexington, KY The Aviation Museum of Kentucky has a display on aviation fighter “aces” from Kentucky. These pilots shot down at least five of the enemy to earn this description. There is also a presentation on these pilots, which we have presented as an outreach program for the museum. There is also an aircraft restorer in the state that has a flying Curtiss “Jenny”, one of the very, very few that flies, and a type of plane that was one of the few American-built aircraft that had an effect on the aviation portion of the ...
Contact: jrm@aviationky.org
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Laurel’s WWI: From Here to Over There
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Drawing back the curtain on long-forgotten Laurel soldiers, men stationed at Camp Laurel, Red Cross knitting sessions, and dances at the former cotton mill, The Laurel Historical Society’s newest exhibit: Laurel’s WW1: From Here to Over There opens Sunday, February 5, 2017. Focusing on individuals, the exhibit explores the impact of this cataclysmic world event on Laurel and its citizens. More than 230 soldiers with ties to Laurel, including two women, have been identified as participating in the war. 116,000 Americans died during WWI, including five from the Laurel area. Artifacts, including WW1 posters, a uniform, minutes from the City of Laurel and Laurel ...
Contact: Karen Lubieniecki: karenlub2@gmail.com www.laurelhistoricalsociety. org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering The Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 - Thursday, November 02, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (251) 575-7433
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI Mobile Museum - State Fair of Texas 2017
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
The WW1mobilemuseum.com will be a part of the commemoration of Texas in WWI. The State Fair is 24 days beginning at the end of September and we will be set up in the Hall of State where up to 2.4 Million people will be able to view the Museum with hundreds of Atifacts and Photograps from the "Great War".
Contact: Keithsmobilemuseum@yahoo.com
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Malcolm Vuksich
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
A new exhibit honoring the contributions of Clark County, Nevada, residents to World War I opened at the Clark County Museum on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The exhibit called “Over Here: Clark County and World War 1” chronicles the efforts of Clark County’s young community in supporting Uncle Sam during the war effort. At the time, Clark County included a collection of small towns and settlements including Searchlight, Nelson, Goodsprings, Jean, Bunkerville, St. Thomas, Mesquite, Logan, Kaolin, Sandy, Las Vegas, Arden, and Crescent. The exhibit will be in the Clark County Museum’s Heritage Gallery through Jan. 28, 2018. The museum is located ...
Contact: mvk@clarkcountynv.gov
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Through November 2018, a changing exhibit in the War Room of the Capitol Building, Albany, will highlight different aspects of how New York and New Yorkers participated in the war. The current case features the first months of World War II, in which the New York governor ordered a June 1917 census of all individuals in the state to assess war resources. This summer’s exhibit will focus on the New Yorkers who volunteered in France, before the U.S. entry into the war, with the American Field Service, as truck drivers, ambulance drivers, and administrators with the American Ambulance Hospital in ...
Contact: robyn.ryan@exec.ny.gov
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Diocesan Museum Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Museum of the Diocese of Peoria, IL, presents an exhibit on the Military Priests of the Diocese of Peoria (March through December 2017) at 419 NE Madison Ave, Peoria IL 61603. More info at www.cdopmuseums.org.
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: A Centennial Commemoration of World War I Memorials in NYC Parks
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
A century after US entry into World War I, the exhibit Over Here features 39 of the 102 World War Memorials in New York City’s Parks. Through the use of 94 vintage and contemporary photographs, as well as original renderings, and objects, the show conveys the losses that communities throughout the city experienced and the artistic response. The show also references how parks were used for the war effort.
Highlights include images of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an original rendering of Father Duffy in Times Square, and the bronze maquette for the Woodside Doughboy.
Contact: pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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There Is No Greater Love
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Historical Museum of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria features an exhibit on the Military Chaplains of the diocese ranging from the famous priest-poet Rev. Abraham Ryan (once an assistant at St. Mary Cathedral in Peoria) up to current chaplains on duty. The display consists of detailed military chaplaincy timeline, amazing excerpts from the chaplains' letters, testimonies in their own words, photos, authentic artifacts display including a field Mass set up, Mass kits, most unique tabernacle made of torpedo casing, "news-wall" of numerous enlarged news clippings announcing the priests' leaving their parishes to go to military, stories of humbling bravery ...
Contact: archives@cdop.org
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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William C. Gorgas and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
Opening March 4th, 2017, "William C. Gorgas and the Great War" offers an exciting glimpse into the experience of Alabamians in the global conflict. In addition to detailing the life and impact of Gorgas, renowned physician and surgeon general, the exhibit delved into the lives of soldiers and students affected by the war. Important topics include Camp Sheridan and the lauded 167th division.Exhibit opening reception free to the public.For more information please visit www.gorgashouse.ua.edu
Contact: Lydia Joffray lydia.joffray@ua.edu (205)348-5906
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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Rededication of Bernardo Cardines Memorial Field
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 04:30pm - 08:30pm
On Friday, September 29, 2017, the Rhode Island World War One Centennial Commission (RIWW1CC) will rededicate the Bernardo Cardines Memorial Field, 20 Americas Cup Avenue, Newport, RI, 02840. The event is free to the public and will include a commemorative Army-Navy baseball game played by students from the U.S. Naval War College dressed in period baseball uniforms. Gates open at 16:30 pm. The abbreviated baseball game (less than nine innings) will conclude at 20:30 pm.
The baseball field is one of the oldest baseball fields in the U.S. It was dedicated on September 20, 1936, to Private Bernardo Cardines, M Company, ...
Contact: riww1cc@gmail.com
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Come On!: World War I Centennial Exhibition
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00am - 04:00pm
In honor of the centennial of the United States' entry into the first World War in 1917, a new exhibition is opening at the St Lawrence County Historical Association in conjunction with Canton's Winterfest. Come On!: Posters and Portraits of World War I shows beautifully designed posters for war bonds alongside photographic portraits of local soldiers. Most of the photos are unidentified, and the museum welcomes visitors who recognize a friend or family member to help identify them.
Contact: tanveer.kalo@worldwarcentennial.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
This exhibit will spot light African American civilian and military service during World War II and explain how African American service during wartime began to advance civil rights on the home front. An intregral part of this exhibit highlights the history of African American military service from the founding of American up to World War II and will feature items from the World War I collection.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 376-4944
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The State Historical Museum of Iowa will feature an exhibit examining the role of Iowans in World War I and the effect of the war on Iowa in the 1920s.
For more information on the State Historical Museum, please visit: www.iowaculture.gov/history/museum.
Contact: Leo Landis - State Curator, State Historical Society of Iowa; Museum Curator, State Historical Museum
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Iowa Gold Star Museum will display an exhibit featuring an interactive fighting trench, a refurbished 1918 Liberty truck, a German Maxim machine gun and 105-mm howitzer, and other artifacts used by Iowans in WWI.
Contact: Mike Vogt, 515-252-4582, Michael.Vogt@iowa.gov
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center will feature a Black Officers Training Exhibit exploring the history of Fort Des Moines and the training of black officers in the segregated U.S. Army during WWI.
Contact: Jack Lufkin, 515-282-8060, Jack.Lufkin@gmail.com
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum will also have an exhibit about those who fought in WWI including those in the Rainbow Division and how families on the home front purchased war bonds to finance the war.
Contact: Bob Neymerer, 319-234-6357, bob.neymeyer@gmdistrict.org
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Centennial Exhibits throughout the State of Iowa
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will feature an exhibit exploring the role of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover during WWI, covering famine relief in Europe, hospitals in England, and Herbert Hoover's role as director of the U.S. Food Administration.
Contact: Matt Schaeffer, 319-643-5301, matthew.schaefer@nara.gov
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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
On April 6, 1917 the United States joined its allies- Britain, France and Russia- to fight in World War I. To mark that anniversary, an exhibit at The Arms Family Museum, From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I, opening on April 29th, will showcase civilian and military clothing in the Jeanne D. Tyler Costume Exhibit Gallery. The exhibit will also have a vignette on Base Hospital 31, formed by the Youngstown Hospital Association in 1917.
Contact: For more information please call: (330) 743-2589
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Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Georgia and the Great War through World War I Posters
Atlanta History Center
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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The exhibit focuses on Missouri in war time, exploring the aftermath of the war and the memorials created to honor those who served, including the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, now the Missouri State Museum in Jefferson City.
The ribbon cutting event and reception will begin at 2 p.m. on April 6, 2017.
A reception immediately following.
Contact: Tiffany Patterson, Director of the Missouri State Museum/Jefferson Landing Historic Site
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Kansas and the Great War: an Exhibit in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The exhibition will feature original letters, diaries, photographs and scrapbooks telling the story of Kansans' contributions during World War I.
Contact: Caitlin Donnelly, Head of Public Services, Spencer Research Library
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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Dedicated in 1932, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine is both a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and a place to commemorate the life of World War I veteran Ewart Watchorn, the son of Shrine founders Robert and Alma Watchorn. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 the Shrine unveiled new exhibits focusing on the bravery of Lt. Watchorn, and the use of Abraham Lincoln's image and legacy during the Great War.
If you would like to give a material or monetary donation to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, please contact Nathan Gonzales, Curator at 909-798-7632 or visit the Heritage Room of A.K. Smiley Public Library. The ...
Contact: heritage@akspl.org
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: An exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
This exhibit will explore how Connecticut's government, industry, and citizenry responded both at home and abroad.
For more information about Connecticut's involvement in WWI and other commemoration events across the state, please visit: http://ctinworldwar1.org.
Contact: Christine Pittsley; Project Manager, Remembering World War One: Sharing History/Preserving Memories
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Maine in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Maine Military Museum and Learning center will be running a World War I exhibit, featuring two large glass cases of WW I artifacts, five fully dressed mannequins, twenty five - thirty framed original posters and unit photos, a massive WW I US Army officers shipping trunk from the 30th Division, trunks from WW I Aero Service & WWI Tank Corp, and a tableau of a "Yank" in a bombed out building. The exhibit will run from April 17, 2017 to November 11, 2018.
Contact: http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/contact-us/
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No Man's Land: A Traveling Exhibit throughout Texas
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The exhibition will highlight the military service and home front experiences of African Americans from East Texas during the First World War. It displays the names of over 11,000 African American veterans who served in the war and allows visitors to learn more about service members' families and communities.
The traveling exhibition will appear at multiple cities in Texas, including Huntsville, Houston, Port Arthur, Lubbock, Longview, Lufkin, and Prairie View. More venues will be added over the (American) centennial period.
For more information, please visit: www.nmltx.org.
Contact: Dr. Lila Rakoczy; project director of No Man's Land
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North Carolina and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
The 6,500-square-foot exhibition will highlight approximately 500 artifacts, period photography, a trench diorama, historical film footage, educational interactive components, and video re-enactments that feature European and North Carolina soldiers and citizens to relate the stories of ordinary men and women from North Carolina who provided extraordinary service ...
Contact: Marcie.Gordon@NCDCR.gov
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Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
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Remembering The Great War: Alabama and World War One
Dates: Friday, September 29, 2017 - Thursday, November 02, 2017
Remembering the Great War is a traveling exhibit created by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Archives & History, with assistance from Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng and Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction: Ali Amacher, Alex Berry, Mark Hollister, Markell Houser, Young Hwang, Kelsey Lawrence, Ian Lee, Jared Long, Renee Melkerson, Rob Palmer, Will Patterson, Wyatt Renfro, Terra Rose, Yi Shao, Adriana Wardle, Yimeng Zhang, and Qianmo Zhang.
Contact: (251) 575-7433
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Roll of Honor Reading at Punahou High School, Hawai'i
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Punahou JROTC give a commemorative reading of names of Oahu College students who enlisted on 11 September 1917.
Contact: Arthur N. Tulak; COL, U.S. Army, Ret.; Chairman, Hawaii World War I Centennial Task Force
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Advertising War: Selling Americans on WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Advertising War
(History Highlights, Artifact Walls, First-Floor Center)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is proud to present "Advertising War," a new display of original wartime posters commissioned by the U.S. government.
The display will explore what, at the time, was the largest advertising initiative taken by the U.S. government. Aimed at turning public opposition toward foreign entanglements into enthusiastic support for American participation in WWI, the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information and it's Division of Pictorial Policy launched a poster campaign designed to manipulate public emotion and inspire action. This advertising campaign, featuring Jame's Montgomery Flagg's Uncle Sam, proved ...
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Modern Medicine and the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Modern Medicine and the Great War
(History Highlights, Artifact Wall, First-Floor Center)
This display will explore the ways medicine was applied on the battlefield and highlight important wartime advances in medical science. WWI provided a testing ground for the application of new medical technologies and procedures, such as the X-ray, and, in some cases, accelerated their general acceptance or development in a much wider context. Simultaneously, wartime medical practice reflected the larger concerns and prejudices of early 20th-century America as the country coped with the ever-changing complexities of modern industrial society.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Presents "Uniformed Women in the Great War"
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Uniformed Women and the Great War
(Third-Floor East, Gateway)
The new third-floor east gateway display will explore the active and largely overlooked role played by women throughout the war, both as a part of the preparedness effort before 1917 and afterwards, at home and abroad, as uniformed members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Red Cross, YMCA and Land Army, among others. In a larger historical context, the exhibit will highlight the role of uniformed women in WWI as a precursor to the women’s suffrage movement of the 1920s.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Smithsonian's National Museum of American History presents "John J Pershing & WWI"
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
John J. Pershing and World War One 1917-1918
(Third-Floor East, Landmark)
The desk and chair from Pershing’s war room at General Headquarters in France, together with a full-size reproduction of the wall map on which he tracked troop movements, will form the new Landmark display for the museum’s third-floor east. The map will show troop locations on the western front the week before armistice was reached. Under Pershing’s command, over 4 million American soldiers helped break the stalemate in Europe and win the war for the allies.
Contact: lattanzin@si.edu
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Stark County in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
This exhibit will commemorate the centennial of America's involvement in World War I, featuring artifacts from the permanent collection, and community members, celebrating those who served from Stark County, Ohio.
Contact: For more information, please call: (330) 833-4061
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The exhibit features the extraordinary story of one Kansas soldier, James Clark Hughes. As a member of the U.S. Army he photographed battlefields and towns in Europe in World War I. These photographs are made public for the first time. Colonel Hughes was captured at Bataan and recorded his daily survival as a Japanese Prisoner of War in World War II. The exhibit displays his photographs, his diary excerpts, and his many belongings from the wars that were later donated to this museum.
Contact: Mary W. Madden, Director, Kansas Museum of History
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The Great War: Arkansas in World War I Traveling Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Great War: Arkansas in World War I showcases images from the Arkansas State Archives' holdings, including original documents, photographs, posters, maps and historical objects that tell the story of Arkansas's role during World War I, at home and on the battlefields. The panels cover the chronology of the war as well as various facets of the conflict, including training troops in Arkansas, actions overseas, the Home Front, providing for the war, healthcare, and Arkansas heroes.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ark-ives.com/outreach/exhibits/traveling.aspx.
Contact: Julienne Crawford, Arkansas State Archives
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The Great War: Visions of a World Conflict
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
A collection of posters which were once used to rally citizens in Europe and the Americas to do their part in World War I.
For more information about Colorado's involvement in WWI, please visit: www.worldwar1centennial.org/colorado.
Contact: Kristin Bueb-Exhibition Manager and Registrar
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
This is an exhibit not about the First World War, rather it is an exhibit about Southeast Ohioans who supported the war effort and how the conflict affected their lives. It attempts to capture and relate the experiences of men and women from across Southeast Ohio. The First World War brought about great change to Southeast Ohio as well as the rest of the country, and even the world. It marked the end of one era, and the beginning of the next. For many Southeast Ohioans, it was the first time they were involved directly in events on a global ...
Contact: For more information, please call: (740) 592- 2280
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To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
To Conquer or Submit? America Views the Great War
Runs from March 30, 2017 to October 28, 2017Americans relied on printed images to understand World War I before and after the US entered the war in April 1917. Their understanding of Germany as an enemy was shaped by propaganda maps and posters, while newspaper maps helped them follow the war's battles. In Europe, maps of the trench systems and of the Western Front were vital to the success of the American Expeditionary Forces. This exhibition commemorates and explores American participation in the Great War—the "War to End All Wars"—with a sample ...
Contact: http://www.oshermaps.org/contact-us
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Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Uncle Sam: I Want You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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WWI Mobile Museum - State Fair of Texas 2017
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
The WW1mobilemuseum.com will be a part of the commemoration of Texas in WWI. The State Fair is 24 days beginning at the end of September and we will be set up in the Hall of State where up to 2.4 Million people will be able to view the Museum with hundreds of Atifacts and Photograps from the "Great War".
Contact: Keithsmobilemuseum@yahoo.com
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
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World War I Display
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
Experience the Great War in a new way through a special display commemorating the centennial of the United States entering World War I in 1917. Explore military uniforms and weapons, patriotic pins and other home front ephemera, souvenirs brought home from Europe by troops and volunteers and much more. Through documents and images from Ohio History Connection archival collections, see how the imagery of war changed, contrasting the bleakness of mud-spattered battlefields with the bright and vibrant posters found at home. This display is a component of the Ohio History Connection's Great Collections Experiment.
Contact: For more information, please call: (800) 686-6124
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World War I at the National Museum of American History
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017
World War I at the National Museum of American HistoryThe year 2017 marks the centennial of the official United States involvement in the First World War and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will commemorate this anniversary with a number of displays and programs.The Museum holds a variety of collections demonstrating the transformative history of World War I and of the United States’ participation in it. The objects and their stories help illuminate civilian participation, civil rights, volunteerism, women’s military service, minority experiences, art and visual culture, medical technological development and new technologies of war and peace. The public ...
Contact: Melinda Machado, Director, Office of Communications & Marketing, 202-633-3129
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"Georgia in the Great War" Exhibit at Georgia Southern Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ involvement in the First World War through the experience of Georgia. Stories of Georgia soldiers and civilians and training camps and communities will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world in important and lasting ways.
Closed University holidays
Contact: .
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Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Anne Morgan’s War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924
Atlanta History Center
Contact: ,
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Congress and the World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
To commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I in 2017, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center presents the yearlong exhibition, Congress and the World Wars.
Through constituent correspondence, petitions, political cartoons, and posters, visitors will be able to see how Congress responded to the issues facing the nation and how that response impacted the lives of Americans and redefined the nation within the world.
Key legislation, such as the Selective Service Act, G.I. Bill of Rights, Marshall Plan, and declarations of war will be highlighted.
The first half of the exhibit, on display March 8, 2017, through September 11, 2017, will ...
Contact: Laura.Trivers@aoc.gov
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Missouri State Museum is commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into the Great War and Missouri's military and civilian contributions to the war effort with a new exhibit"Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War"
The exhibit opens Thursday, April 6, 2017 and closes May 2020.Throughout the 3 year exhibit rotating displays will highlight the different aspects of Missouri's role in the war "over there" and what was happening here at home. The exhibit will feature the museum's extensive collection of WWI regimental flags and memorial service banners presented by Missouri counties following the war.
Contact: Katherine Owens, katherine.owens@dnr.mo.gov, DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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K-12 teacher workshop on World War I, America and in Hawaii
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
K-12 teacher workshop on World War I, America and in Hawaii
Note that this activity is not open to the general public, but for intermediate and high school teachers from public, private and charter schools around the state, with HCH providing travel stipends for teachers on other islands.
Workshop is sponsored by the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and that Hawai’i History Day is a program of the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities
Contact: Robert Buss
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Saint Albans & The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
Utilizing artifacts, images, and memorabilia, this special exhibit shares the stories of service and sacrifice of those residents of St. Albans, Vermont who served during World War I, as well as those of the family and friends who supported them from home. This display highlights the 45 members of a local National Guard unit known as the Machine Gun Unit, 18 of whom were high school students who attended classes in the building that is now home to the Saint Albans Museum.
Contact: alex@stamuseum.org
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The World War is Georgia's War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
The exhibit includes stories of Georgia soldiers, civilians, training camps, communities and will highlight the state’s unique role in this conflict that changed Georgia and the world.
Contact: 912-478-4636
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
World War I was considered the war to end all wars. The war brought technological advances on and off the battlefield and produced weapons that were deadlier than ever before. Developments in engineering, chemistry, and metalworking created unmerciful conditions and saw a transition from animal power to machine power as the primary means of victory. The techniques and knowledge in the field of medicine improved and adapted to the mass destruction of war. Outside the war zone, the home front proved to be a vital artery in the war effort through its sacrifices and undying support of patriotism. In all, ...
Contact: museum@minnehahacounty.org
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Your Country Calls: Art to Win WWI
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00am - 05:00pm
One hundred years ago, American artists answered the country’s call by creating a national narrative of compelling artwork. Millions of patriotic posters were printed to communicate to a mass audience before every home had a radio or television. Your Country Calls: Art to Win World War I displays these dramatic images and bold graphics that called Americans to serve and contribute to the war effort through the power of the poster.
Contact: judyrazo@wittemuseum.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad. The exhibition considers the debates and struggles that surrounded U.S. engagement; explores U.S. military and home front mobilization and the immensity of industrialized warfare; and touches on the war's effects, as an international peace settlement was negotiated, national borders were redrawn, and soldiers returned to reintegrate into American society. With the most comprehensive collection of multi-format World War I holdings in the nation including those materials gathered and preserved by the Veterans History Project, the ...
Contact: www.loc.gov/exhibits
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Remembering the Great War: 1914-1918
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:30am - 04:30pm
The exhibit features artifacts ranging from patriotic posters to a U.S. Army captain’s uniform from the balloon corpsto helmets to a silent film of American troops in France.The centerpiece is the photographs, which are both a treasure and a bit of a mystery.Museum curators know who took the photos, where they were taken and information about eachimage. Curators also know how the photos ended up in the museum’s collection – they were partof a larger collection acquired from Carson City history buff and collector Daun Bohall, who hadpurchased them years earlier at a yard sale. How the photos went from ...
Contact: Guy Clifton (775) 687-0646, gclifton@travelnevada.com
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Wyoming Veterans Museum will open a major exhibit in the Kading Gallery, from April 6, 2017 to November 11, 2018, commemorating Wyoming's role in the Great War, 1917-1919.
Contact: douglas.cubbison@wyo.gov
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Embattled Emblems: Posters and Flags of the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am - 04:45pm
On the eve of World War I, President (and former Governor of New Jersey) Woodrow Wilson faced the difficult task of transforming the American people into a pro-war populace willing to make supreme sacrifices for the country. Replete with patriotic images and rhetoric, posters used the power of illustration art to raise money for the war effort and induce a changing American mindset towards war.
Whereas posters formed a chief source of propaganda on the home front, military flags served a similar purpose on the battlefront. Once overseas, the American Expeditionary Force used the patriotic form of the flag – a ...
Contact: Nicholas Ciotola - nicholas.ciotola@sos.nj.gov
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Laissez-vous conter Langres during the WW1
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am - 06:30pm
MEET THE DOUGHBOYS
A hundred years ago, the United States joined the Allied powers in the most devastating war ever waged. Before being sent to the front, millions of American soldiers, or Doughboys, were shipped off to Langres to be trained in US Army war schools. Travel back in time to this little-known episode in history through a special exhibition, ‘Laissez-vous conter 14-18: Langres en guerre’, as part of the centenary of the Great War. The free exhibit at the Salle Colson (in the Jardin de la Maison des Lumières) runs from May 13 to October 8.
Opening from Tuesday to Sunday, ...
Contact: sylvain.riandet@langres.fr
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Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I Exhibit
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
“Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I” is an exhibit prepared by Dr. George Robb and will be at the Newark Public Library, 5 Washington Street. Dr. Robb is a widely published historian and Newark resident, and also a professor of history at William Paterson University.
This outstanding WWI exhibit, will contain historic photographs, sheet music, pamphlets, posters, and other materials from the Library’s and his personal collections. It’s well worth seeing! It will be available for viewing in the Main Library’s third floor gallery from April 6 throughout the rest of the year.
For more information contact The Newark Historical Society at NewarkHistorySociety@verizon.net or by calling 973.376.8273.
Contact: Thomas Ankner, 973-733-7775
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am
This will be a permanent display of the causes of WWI and its course, focusing on the America's involvement. It starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, ending with the US occupation of the Rhineland. As well, there will be specific displays focusing on topics such as technological advances, the US Air Service, Tank Corps, Intervention in Russia, the US Navy and communications in the war zone. The display will use photographs, posters, costumed mannequins and text to explore the various facets of the war, with the US Army as the main focus.
Museum closed on Mondays.
Contact: Kovesci.Kim@mapsairmuseum.org
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World War I Posters from the Pennsylvania State Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:00am - 05:00pm
The State Museum of Pennsylvania will exhibit selections from the extensive collection of original World War I posters at the Pennsylvania State Archives to commemorate the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I.
The Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. On Sundays, the Museum opens at noon.
Contact: Beth Hager: bhager@pa.gov
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A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 09:30am - 05:00pm
April 2017 will mark the centennial of America’s entrance into World War I. New York State and its citizens played a critical role in the United States’ efforts during the conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front through industrial production as well as civic participation and debate. "A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War" will explore the Empire State's efforts during the conflict through artifacts, documents, and posters of the era from the collections of the State Museum, Library, and Archives, as well as partner organizations from across New York.
For more information, ...
Contact: Aaron Noble: aaron.noble@nysed.gov
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"Loyalty and Dissent" Brown County and World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
The new Brown County Historical Society exhibit, Loyalty and Dissent: Brown County and World War I, tells a local story with national implications. When the United States declared war in April 1917, more than half of Brown County residents were first or second generation Germans. Even today, based on the U.S. Census, it is the most German city in the United States. The German language could be heard in country schools, local stores, and around the county’s many saloons. Then, suddenly, Germany – the homeland – was the enemy, and young men and women were called to arms to fight ...
Contact: (507) 233-2616
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibit shares some of the stories of Alexandrians during the war: their feelings about this nearly-incomprehensible world tragedy, their early efforts to help, and their more active participation in the American war effort after April, 1917. Many of us have ancestors who lived through this conflict and participated in some way, and the museum staff hopes this exhibition provides a renewed interest in and appreciation for their struggles and sacrifices, as well as the new role they helped to create for the United States on the world stage.
Exhibit includes rare Lusitania artifacts, period weapons, and archival video.
Contact: jim.mackay@alexandriava.gov
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
The grinding, mechanized nature of World War I, the first global war that involved millions of infantry combatants, has tended to render these soldiers in popular culture as faceless masses rather than individual participants with their own unique stories. In an effort surface the individual of WWI, Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War features 54 artworks produced by the AEF artist program, the first true combat artists, with 29 art photographs of stone carvings created by soldiers in underground living spaces adjacent to the trenches. These spaces were abandoned stone quarries that soldiers on all sides used, ...
Contact: Peter Jakab: jakabp@si.edu
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Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 03:00pm
Liberty Hall Museum will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States entering with World War I with an exhibit entitled, “Brothers in Arms: Memories of the Great War”, in which the museum will look at the service of Captain John Kean, his brother Congressman, Robert W. Kean, as well as their three Roosevelt cousins, George, John and Philip. The exhibit, using firsthand accounts from their letters and postcards sent home, as well as, photographs and personal objects, will allow visitors to walk in their footsteps as they were sent off to basic training in 1917 to fighting overseas ...
Contact: libertyhall@kean.edu
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Field to Front: Nittany Lions at War, 1917-1919
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 04:00pm
With the American declaration of war in April 1917, current and former Penn State student athletes answered the call and flocked to join the colors. Serving in all branches of the military, Field to Front tells the story of their triumphs and sacrifices as they worked to advance the cause of victory. Featuring a variety of objects, photos, and letters relating to Nittany Lions past, the exhibit will open April 21, 2017 and will run through April 2018.
Contact: Ken Hickman, krh132@psu.edu
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Fredericksburg Area Museum: World Aflame: A Hometown in Two World Wars
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Twice within 25 years the Fredericksburg Area mobilized for war. Local men and women “shipped out,” while thousands of soldiers descended on nearby military bases. The World Wars touch every family and every aspect of life in Fredericksburg. This exhibit tells the story of those that lived through these wars, and those that never returned.
Contact: mjohnson@famcc.org
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and thoughts engendered by the war that brought America onto the world stage; raised complex questions about gender, race and ethnic relations; and ushered in the modern era. Included are previously unpublished letters by General John Pershing, the general who led the American Expeditionary Forces and a person who understood the power of the medium. In his postwar letter that begins “My fellow soldiers,” he recognized each individual under his ...
Contact: Ren Cooper (202) 633-5062
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
This second of two collaborative exhibits will focus on the return of the troops to North Texas at the end of the war. Details are still pending.
This is a community collaborative effort bringing together the following organizations:
• Ben E. Keith Corporation
• Friends of the Royal Flying Corps Cemetery
• Frontiers of Flight Museum
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum
• Fort Worth Central Library
• Fort Worth Jewish Archives
• Fort Worth National Archives
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
• Fort Worth Stockyards Museum
• Fort Worth YMCA
• Historic Fort Worth
• Imagination Fort Worth
• Military Museum of Fort Worth
• North Fort Worth Historical Society
• Tarrant County ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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North Texas in WWI: Mobilization for The Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
The First World war had a major impact on the North Texas region. It's impact affected lives, the economy, and the culture of the region.
This collaboration of organizations across North Texas will include displays on the following subjects:
1. Welcome and WWI Timeline
2. Pre-war and Mexico Texas Border Conflicts
3. The Army and Camp Bowie
4. Multicultural Aspects of WWI and North Texas◦ African Americans◦ German Americans◦ Jewish Americans◦ Native Americans◦ Mexican Americans
5. Regional Culture
6. Army Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airfields
7. The Home Front
8. A World Overview
9. Interactive opportunities for young and old
10. Curriculum development and study guides for school use
11. ...
Contact: jhodgson@ftwaviation.com
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Posters and Patriotism
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 06:00pm
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice.
From the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914, however, New York had also been a city at war with itself—a place where debates ...
Contact: info@mcny.org
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Posters as Munitions
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions, 1917 showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Revolutions! 1917
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
The Centennial exhibition showcases the incredible events that occurred worldwide from America’s official entry into the war and Russia’s upheavals from an Imperial state to Bolshevik rule. The stalemated battles on the Western Front and in other theaters and troubles on the home fronts also led to societal changes, mutinies and revolts.
Contact: 816.888.8100
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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Send the Word: New Jersey and the Great War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
Experience New Jersey's World War One history through music, armaments, uniforms and other artifacts.
Contact: Maribel Jusino-Iturralde, maribel@jerseyhistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I, fought from 1914-1918, was the modern world’s first international conflict. Approximately 11 million soldiers were killed, and the war's toll including civilian casualties exceeded 20 million. The United States, by declaration of President Woodrow Wilson, formally entered the war Apr. 6, 1917. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, more than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war. Of these, more than 1,600 were Knights of Columbus. Both the first and last American military officers to die during the war were K of C members.In addition to Knights who served on the battlefield as soldiers, the ...
Contact: Kathy Cogan, 203-752-4630
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World War I and the Visual Arts
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:30pm
Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts. Moving chronologically from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice, World War I and the Visual Arts will highlight the diverse ways in which artists both reacted to and represented the horrors of modern warfare. The works on view will reflect a variety of responses, ranging from nationalist enthusiasm to more somber reflections on the carnage and mass devastation that resulted from the war. The exhibition is made possible by The Schiff Foundation.Drawn mainly from the collection of The ...
Contact: 212-535-7710
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World War I: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am - 05:00pm
World War I (1914-1918) was the modern world’s first international conflict. Total casualties exceeded 20 million, including 11 million soldiers. More than 116,000 Americans died as a result of the war.
The Knights of Columbus was active in war relief efforts, managing highly successful fundraising drives and catering to servicemen in America and abroad through recreation centers known as army huts.
The impact of World War I was felt for generations. No one during this time period was unaffected.
The Knights of Columbus Museum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ participation in the war with an exhibition, "World War I: Beyond ...
Contact: museum@kofc.org
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Trenches to Treaties: the Numismatics of World War I
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:30am - 05:00pm
An Exhibit presented by the American Numismatic Association Money Museum.
This exhibit will cover the history of World War I as illustrated through medals, decorations, coins and paper currency. Themes will include economics, technology, propaganda, commemoration, and remembrance, all of which can be discussed using numismatic items. The exhibit will also feature other objects related to the war, including trench art, posters, uniforms, video and interactive elements such as a recreation of a trench.
The Money Museum is open to the public from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
Contact: mudd@money.org
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:00am - 05:00pm
In April 2017, the MacArthur Memorial will open a new special exhibit entitled "Over Here, Over There". This new exhibit will examine the causes of the U.S. entry into World War I, wartime propaganda, the social fabric of America, the American Expeditionary Force (training, preparations and collaboration with Allied forces) and major campaigns fought by the A.E.F. The exhibit will also discuss the American homefront, including local efforts in the Hampton Roads area. "Over Here, Over There" will be on display at the MacArthur Memorial Visitors Center, April 8, 2017-December 30, 2018.
For more information, visit: www.macarthurmemorial.org
Contact: amanda.williams@norfolk.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm - 09:00pm
Museum Exhibit opens at Noon April 6, 2017 and will run through Memorial Day 2019 will look at Virginia Military Units in the Great War through original uniforms, flags, documents and artifacts. In addition there will be additional photographs and artifacts related to Virginia in WWI on temporary display for the anniversary of America's entry into the War.
Contact: Christopher Garcia, cgarcia@nnva.gov
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The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
"The Great War: Kentucky and Beyond" exhibit at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, commemorates the Centennial of WWI and explores Kentuckians' role from local to international perspectives. The exhibit is curated by Margaret Spratt, Ph.D. The exhibit is on display through October 1st and includes free admission for all veterans thanks to the Kentucky Veterans Trust Fund.
Contact: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The City of Aurora’s Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum and the Aurora Historical Society are proud to present “With the Colors From Aurora: A Memorial to the First World War”, on display in the David L. Pierce Art and History Center, 20 E. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506, from May 29, 2017-January 6, 2018.
This temporary exhibit explores the experiences of those living in Aurora, IL and those from Aurora who served overseas, as recorded in the memorial book "With the Colors From Aurora", which was published in 1919. The exhibit features excellent examples of World War I weaponry, military ...
Contact: Erin Howard, ehoward@aurora-il.org
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World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 02:00pm - 07:00pm
The Hoboken Historical Museum opens a new exhibit that focuses on how the city and its residents were transformed after the United States entered World War I. "World War I Centennial: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken," which runs through December 23, will feature silent films of soldiers at the Hoboken port. It will also show government posters meant to promote the local draft registration and urge people at home to buy war bonds, conserve resources and help with the war effort.
During that time, Hoboken became the main port for the U.S. Expeditionary Forces headed to Europe.
In addition, personal photographs, letters, uniforms ...
Contact: www.hobokenmuseum.org
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26th Division Centennial Ball
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 06:00pm - 11:30pm
Ball commemorating the centennial of the organization of the 26th "Yankee" Division for World War I service.
Contact: leonid.e.kondratiuk.nfg@mail.mil
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A Year in the Trenches
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00pm - 10:00pm
A Year in the Trenches, by NJ playwright James Rana, an engaging theatre piece dramatizing NJ's essential part in The Great War, will be performed as part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Stages Festival in March 2017! The Stages Festival is a month-long statewide celebration of live theater. NJTA member theaters East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May and the Bickford Theatre of Morristown will be co-producing the event. Full information and details can be found at www.stagesfestival.org in January, 2017. For related information about the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, visit www.njta.org.
Contact: East Lynne Theater Company
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Joséphine Baker, Paris mon amour
Dates: Saturday, September 30, 2017 08:00pm
In this year of commemoration of the strong ties between France and the United States during the First World War, which better than Josephine Baker can symbolize this friendship: the most American of the French and the most French of the Americans! It is also the symbol of the post-war carelessness.Considered to be the first black star, become a muse of cubists and carried by the enthusiasm of the Parisians for jazz and black music, Joséphine Baker conquered the heart of the French in a few years, from the Revue Negro of 1925 to "I Two loves "in 1931. An ...
Contact: www.grinyland.com/
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