Weekly View

October 02, 2016 - October 08, 2016
October 02, 2016 - October 08, 2016

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

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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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
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Category: Other

American Volunteers Exhibit at The National World War I Museum and Memorial
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

 The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I 1914-1919 is currently one of the central exhibits at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City MO. Opening Tuesday, April 5, The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I 1914-1919gives an in-depth look at American volunteer efforts prior to the United States’ official entry to World War I. Created in collaboration with AFS Intercultural Programs, the exhibition highlights the contribution of ambulance drivers and the critical role they played in several notable battles during the early stages of the war in the French theater. Other American volunteer endeavors coordinated by the YMCA, YWCA ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

The Centennial of Aviation Warfare – Part 2
Dates: 08:00am 

“Lafayette, We Are Here” The Centennial of Aviation Warfare – Part 2 2016 League Biennial Seminar, Dayton, Ohio, September 28-30, 2016 Contact:  OTF-Membership@overthefront.com Location The National Museum of the US Air Force – Situated at historic Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is 1.5 Hours from Cincinnati Airport and 2 hours from Indianapolis Airport. Activities Wednesday Evening, September 28th Registration and social venue to indulge in hangar flying with old acquaintances and new friends. Thursday, September 29th and Friday September 30th. Two full days of expert presentations by leading WW I Aviation historians and enthusiasts. The ...
Contact:
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Category: Conferences, Shows & Panels, Commemoration & Memorial Events

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016 WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm 

  Commemorate the First World War and its impact on aviation at one of the nation's premier historical aviation event, Dawn Patrol Rendezvous. It brings the excitement and adrenaline of early air power to Dayton, Ohio, hometown of the Wright Brothers and home to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The World War I Dawn Patrol Rendezvous features vintage original and reproduction WWI aircraft, radio-controlled models, era automobiles, period re-enactors, educational activities and a collector's show. This flying event is offered by the museum and the Great War Aeroplanes Association. Admission and Parking will be free.  For more information and ...
Contact:
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Category: Performances & Creative Exhibition

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

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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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
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Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
721

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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
420

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
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Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
721

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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
420

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
587

,

 

Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

,

 

Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
41

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
112

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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
238

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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
721

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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
420

,

 

Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
587

,

 

Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

,

 

Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
41

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
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Category: Georgia

Kentucky's Flying Aces
Dates:

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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Category: Performances & Creative Exhibition, Kentucky

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

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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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

Pullman and the Great War
Dates:

Many Pullman Company employees and residents of the Pullman Community served in the First World War. In addition, the company produced war materials for the war effort throughout 1917-1919.
Contact: sleepingcars@sbcglobal.net
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Category: Illinois

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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
420

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
587

,

 

Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

,

 

Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
41

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library
Dates:

WWI artifact display at the Carrollton Library.
Contact: Carrollton Library
238

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Category: Georgia

Over There: Dayton in the Great War
Dates:

A special, commemorative WWI exhibit using Dayton as the lens to view WWI.
Contact: For more information, please call: (937) 293-2841
721

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions, Ohio

Pullman and the Great War
Dates:

Many Pullman Company employees and residents of the Pullman Community served in the First World War. In addition, the company produced war materials for the war effort throughout 1917-1919.
Contact: sleepingcars@sbcglobal.net
145

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Category: Illinois

The Extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Hughes: an Exhibit at the Kansas Museum of History
Dates:

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
420

,

 

Category: Museums and Exhibitions

2016-17 Common Experience
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm 

The Common Experience at Texas State University is a yearlong initiative that cultivates a conversation on a theme, enhancing student participation and fostering a sense of community throughout the campus and beyond. The 2016-17 theme is "A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917."
Contact: Twister Marquiss, twister@txstate.edu
587

,

 

Category: Other

World War: America and the Creation of a Superpower
Dates: 08:00am - 04:00pm 

The exhibit, which is aligned with the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into WWI in 1917 and the 75th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941, will be on display from August 31, 2016--June 23, 2017. The exhibit examines the way these wars have defined the country’s place in the world. Featured objects include propaganda posters from the Sullivan Museum’s own collection, on loan from the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art & Anthropology in Burlington, and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. These posters offer a fascinating look into how war objectives were communicated to the ...
Contact: Lindsay Lord: llord@norwich.edu
292

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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” exhibit at the Library of Congress
Dates: 08:30am - 04:30pm 

“World War I: American Artists View the Great War” Exhibition First in Series of Library Events to Mark World War I Centennial "World War I: American Artists View the Great War" features fine prints, drawings, cartoons, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. The works on display reflect the focus of wartime art on patriotic and propaganda messages—by government-supported as well as independent and commercial artists. Located in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., the exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, ...
Contact: https://www.loc.gov/
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Category: Museums and Exhibitions

Otranto Disaster Memorial Ceremony
Dates: 09:30am 

Commemorating the Georgians, including 28 from Berrien County alone, who perished in the wreck of the troop ship Otranto off the coast of Scotland during World War I. Commemorating the 98th anniversary of the wreck of the ship Otranto.
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Georgia

They Shall Not Pass | 1916, Exhibit at the National World War 1 Museum and Memorial
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm 

 July 1 this year will mark 100 years since the start of the Second Battle of the Somme, which lasted until November as the British and French armies failed to break the stalemate of the Western Front. 2016 also marks the centennial of the Battle of Verdun, lasting from February to December 1916, which ended in a French victory at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. Combined, the two battles killed or wounded more than one million Allied soldiers, along with 800,000 German soldiers. Having opened at the The National World War I Museum and Memorial on May ...
Contact:
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Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Performances & Creative Exhibition