Weekly View

October 09, 2016 - October 15, 2016
October 09, 2016 - October 15, 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

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

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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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference
Dates:

Years ending in "6" have frequently marked times of transition between peace and war: 1816, 1866, 1916, and 1946 in particular. The 34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, hosted by the University of South Alabama, will feature panels, presentations, performances, round tables, and workshops exploring numerous aspects of these liminal periods.   Call for papers: https://www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/sites/usm.edu.gulfcoast/files/groups/gulf-south-historical-association/pdf/gulfsouthconference2016_call_for_papers.pdf
Contact: Dr. Donald DeVore ddevore@southalabama.edu
139

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Category: Conferences, Shows & Panels

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

,

 

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

,

 

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

Living the World War: A Weekly Exploration of the American Experience in World War I
Dates: 07:00pm - 08:00pm 

Join us as the Wisconsin Veterans Museum welcomes former Dean at the University of Maine Law School for a presentation about the book, Living the World War: A Weekly Exploration of the American Experience in World War I. Presenter and Author, Donald Zillman and his co-author, Elizabeth Elsbach, drew on the files of the New York Times and the Congressional Record to explore how an average American citizen living in 1916-19 would experience the war, not knowing what would come next. Their week by week summary of the war and emerging national issues at the time demonstrate how history shaped 21stcentury America.  
Contact: Kevin Hampton
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Category: Wisconsin

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

34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference
Dates:

Years ending in "6" have frequently marked times of transition between peace and war: 1816, 1866, 1916, and 1946 in particular. The 34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, hosted by the University of South Alabama, will feature panels, presentations, performances, round tables, and workshops exploring numerous aspects of these liminal periods.   Call for papers: https://www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/sites/usm.edu.gulfcoast/files/groups/gulf-south-historical-association/pdf/gulfsouthconference2016_call_for_papers.pdf
Contact: Dr. Donald DeVore ddevore@southalabama.edu
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Category: Conferences, Shows & Panels

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
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

,

 

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

,

 

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

,

 

Category: Georgia

34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference
Dates:

Years ending in "6" have frequently marked times of transition between peace and war: 1816, 1866, 1916, and 1946 in particular. The 34th Annual Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, hosted by the University of South Alabama, will feature panels, presentations, performances, round tables, and workshops exploring numerous aspects of these liminal periods.   Call for papers: https://www.usm.edu/gulfcoast/sites/usm.edu.gulfcoast/files/groups/gulf-south-historical-association/pdf/gulfsouthconference2016_call_for_papers.pdf
Contact: Dr. Donald DeVore ddevore@southalabama.edu
139

,

 

Category: Conferences, Shows & Panels

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

,

 

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

,

 

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