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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
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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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
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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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
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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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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
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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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MAPS World War One Exhibit
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Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
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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
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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
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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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
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The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
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See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
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This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
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San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
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San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
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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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
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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
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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
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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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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
New Jersey During World War I: An Exhibit
"Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I" focuses on the stories of New Jerseyans and the affect the war had on those at home and fighting abroad.
It delves into topics such as the prelude to war, the home front, the roles of African Americans and women and how art, music and photography played a part during the War.
Through unique displays, artifacts and historic recreations, the story of New Jersey and World War I is told in this innovative exhibit.
Parking and admission are free. Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information ...
Contact: Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information about this and other programs.
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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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: 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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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Great War in Arlington Cemetery
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
Great War in Arlington Cemetery
'Their devotion, their valor and their sacrifice will live forever in the hearts of their grateful countryman,' declared General of the Armies John J. Pershing, referring to the over 100,000 Americans who died in World War I. Arlington Cemetery is the final resting place for not only their revered leader, General Pershing, but also for a lone soldier whose anonymous, though not forgotten, death prompted erection of one of the cemetery's most powerful sites: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Join this walk to pay tribute to them and to heroic battlefield nurses, the 'Buffalo Soldiers' ...
Contact: info@washingtonwalks.com
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The Imprint of World War I
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
The Imprint of World War I
In 1917 the commanding personality of General John J. Pershing characterized the United States' belated foray into the war-weary battlefields of Europe. At home, President Woodrow Wilson's commitment to the Allied victory changed the character of both the federal government and of the nation's capital. Although Washington, D.C. awaits a national memorial to World War I, sites associated with the 'War to End All Wars' are hiding in plain sight, testimonies to the foot soldiers, generals, bureaucrats, and U.S. presidents involved in the cataclysmic conflict.
Contact: info@washingtonwalks.com
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Film: My Four Years in Germany (1918)
Dates: 01:30pm - 04:00pm
Film: My Four Years in Germany (1918)
Join film critic Howie Movshovitz for a look at American propaganda during World War I. Live music will accompany this semi-autobiographical silent film about James Gerard, United States Ambassador to Germany during 1913-1917.
Contact: lspurlin@denverlibrary.org
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A Musical Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice that Ended The Great War
Dates: 03:00pm - 04:30pm
A Musical Tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice that Ended The Great War
A 100th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armistice of The Great War featuring period music from the Charleston Barbershop Chorus and special guest Noodle of the V-Tones of Charleston. An honor guard from the Washington Light Infantry will present the colors. Hosted by the Charleston County Public Library (Main Library auditorium).
Contact: crothersk@ccpl.org
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The Land of Lost Content: The Great War In Song
Dates: 03:00pm - 05:00pm
The Land of Lost Content: The Great War In Song
This unique musical evening features reflections on World War I. The Great War affected the lives of many individuals, from classical composers and poets to the singers of music hall ballads.Prominent on the program will be works of Denis Browne (died at Gallipolli in 1915) and Ivor Gurney (shell shock, never recovered), alongside the Ian Venables' haunting "Through These Pale Cold Days."
Brian Thorsett, TenorDaniel Lockert, PianoStephen Harrison, 'CelloDavid Latulippe, narrator
Contact: sausalitosongsociety@gmail.com
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The Land of Lost Content: The Great War in Song
Dates: 03:00pm
The Land of Lost Content: The Great War in Song
featuring
Brian Thorsett, Tenor and Daniel Lockert, Piano
at Campbell Hall in Sausalito, CA
November 4, 2018, at 3:00 p.m.
This unique musical evening features reflections on World War I. The Great War affected the lives of many individuals, from classical composers and poets to the singers of music hall ballads.
Prominent on the program will be works of Denis Browne (died at Gallipolli in 1915) and Ivor Gurney (shell shock, never recovered), alongside the Ian Venables' haunting "Through These Pale Cold Days."
Hailed as a strikingly gifted tenor, with a deeply moving, unblemished voice (sfmusicjournal.com), tenor ...
Contact: Brian Thorsett at http://www.brianthorsett.com
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Kill on the Hill: World War I
Dates: 04:00pm - 06:00pm
Dr. Chester Archibald might just know how to help the Allies win the war against Mustard Gas. But what happens when someone ends up dead at a party in his honor?
Contact: Call: 330.833.6749
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NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
Arís is a non-profit theatre company based in Atlanta, GA - presenting plays from and about Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. We wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day to remember, lest we forget, the terrible cost of war. We also wish to honor the legacy of the poets who found beauty and friendship in the midst of unspeakable ugliness and tragedy, and whose work still inspires us today. This moving play by Stephen MacDonald is based on the real-life friendship between noted World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Against the backdrop of the horrors ...
Contact: aris@aristheatre.org
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates:
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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates:
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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
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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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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
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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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MAPS World War One Exhibit
Dates:
Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
Dates:
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:
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
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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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
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The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
Dates:
See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
Dates:
This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
Dates:
San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
and
San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates:
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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
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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:
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:
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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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
Contact:
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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: 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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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Food History: War Fare
Dates: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
The First World War affected all aspects of American culture, especially our approach to cooking and food, some of which still lingers 100 years later. “Save the Wheat!” drives, “Meatless Mondays”, and victory gardens led to the acceptance of innovative recipes coming out of necessity. While “Over There” American Doughboys experienced new food culture which they brought back to the states. This “War Fare” will be our inspiration for a three course menu exploring the history of WWI accompanied by presentations highlighting Washington County in WWI and the research behind this meal.
For Tickets and more Information: https://www.mariettacastle.org/?event=food-history-warfare&event_date=2018-11-05
Contact: Call: 740.373.4180
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The 100th Anniversary of the War to End All Wars
Dates: 06:00pm - 07:30pm
The 100th Anniversary of the War to End All Wars
The Oklahoma Genealogy Society Meetingspeaker- Mahlon EricksonMonday, November 5th, 20186:00PMOKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER
Contact: marcieah@yahoo.com
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World War 1 Armistice Lecture
Dates: 06:00pm - 07:30pm
On the evening of Monday, November 5, the final lecture in a series of four on the first World War will be held at the Twin Falls Public Library in the Community Room downstairs
The free lecture "Two Stories of the 1918 Armistice and the sad tale of Mrs. Wright from Twin Falls" is a family friendly event and starts at 6pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Presented by the Idaho World War Centennial Commission.
Contact: ortrek42@yahoo.com
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates:
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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates:
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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates:
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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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates:
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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MAPS World War One Exhibit
Dates:
Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
Dates:
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:
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:
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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
Dates:
The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
Dates:
See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
Dates:
This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
Dates:
San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
and
San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates:
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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
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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:
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:
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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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
Contact:
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: 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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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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: 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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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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The Great War: 100 Years On
Dates: 06:30pm - 08:00pm
The Great War: 100 Years On
This autumn marks one hundred years since the armistice was signed to end fighting in the Great War. Surpassing all previous battles in terms of scope and horror, the war ushered in modern combat and revealed to the world the destructive capability of industrial societies. As the turning point of the twentieth century, it ended the reign of a number of empires, it redrew political boundaries and it created much of the instability that led to another global conflict. One hundred years later, what is the legacy of the Great War? This talk will discuss ...
Contact: info@durhammuseum.org
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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We Will Remember Them!: A WWI Tribute in Words and Music
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:00pm
We Will Remember Them!: A WWI Tribute in Words and Music
Britsburgh WWI Series event in collaboration with Heinz Memorial Chapel and Duquesne University. This event will respectfully commemorate those who gave their lives in World War I, while celebrating the freedom that we cherish thanks to the fallen and those who survived. Virtually every family in Britain and many in the USA were affected by the loss of a relative or friend who fought in this war to preserve our freedom.We will sing their songs, learn about local World War I heroes, and be uplifted by some rousing music of the ...
Contact: kimberly2859@msn.com
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
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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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
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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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
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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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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
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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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MAPS World War One Exhibit
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Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
Dates:
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:
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
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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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
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The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
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See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
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This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
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San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
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San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates:
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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WWI Centennial Community Event - Bismarck
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The North Dakota WWI Centennial Committee has planned a series of community events leading up to the armistice ending WWI, 100-years ago November 11. We will sponsor lectures and community discussions in six cities (more if we can find the funding) during October and the first week of November. Susan Wefald and Darrell Dorgan will moderate each of the events. The WWI programming is being paid for with a grant from the North Dakota Humanities Council to fund the project.
The programs will begin with a 10-minute video presentation with an overview of WWI. That will be followed by a 20-30-minute talk about ...
Contact: North Dakota Heritage Center
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WWI: The War to End All Wars
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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:
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:
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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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War 1 Touring Cars
Dates: 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: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: 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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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
New Jersey During World War I: An Exhibit
"Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I" focuses on the stories of New Jerseyans and the affect the war had on those at home and fighting abroad.
It delves into topics such as the prelude to war, the home front, the roles of African Americans and women and how art, music and photography played a part during the War.
Through unique displays, artifacts and historic recreations, the story of New Jersey and World War I is told in this innovative exhibit.
Parking and admission are free. Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information ...
Contact: Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information about this and other programs.
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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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: 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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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Opening Ceremony and Recepion for "100 Years of Diplomatic Couriers‚ None Swifter than" Exhibit
Dates: 01:00pm - 02:30pm
U.S Department of State Diplomatic Courier Service Historical Exhibition
The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State, is hosting an opening ceremony and reception for the exhibition,"100 Years of Diplomatic Couriers‚ None Swifter than These" at the U.S. Department of State, Diplomacy Center Pavilion, November 7, 2018, 1-2:30 pm.
The event commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Department of State Diplomatic Courier Service. The anniversary symbolizes U.S. ascent to global leadership in the wake of World War I. After the Armistice, the Department assigned a group of handpicked U.S. Army messengers to U.S. Embassy Paris to support the ...
Contact: WeinerE@state.gov
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How the American Army Came of Age in the Decisive Battles of World War I
Dates: 05:00pm - 06:30pm
How the American Army Came of Age in the Decisive Battles of World War I
Join American historian and author Robert J. Dalessandro who has written and presented extensively on the American Expeditionary Forces' contributions to the First World War. Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Deputy Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). He is former Director of the United States Army Center of Military History at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy. He is author of Willing Patriots: Men ...
Contact: dkresh@arlingtonva.us
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“LEST WE FORGET” The Story of World War I And Yolo County
Dates: 05:00pm - 07:00pm
“LEST WE FORGET” The Story of World War I And Yolo County
YOLO BRANCH LIBRARY Yolo County Library “We connect people and ideas” For more information contact Mel Russell: (530) 304 -6154 or Yolo County Library
WORLD WAR 1 AND YOLO COUNTY
Number four in a series of talks on The Story of World War 1 and Yolo County
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO HEAR WORLD WAR 1 AND YOLO COUNTY SCHEDULE OF TALK # 4
NOVEMBER 14TH, 2018, 6:30-8:30 PM
WOODLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
Contact: Mel Russell: (530) 304 -6154 or Yolo County Library
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For Home & Country: WWI Propaganda on the American Home Front
Dates: 07:00pm - 08:00pm
For Home & Country: WWI Propaganda on the American Home Front
On November 7th - "For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the American Home Front"- World War I propaganda was massive in scope, targeting women and children on the home front, pressuring them to contribute to the war effort. When women and children were not the target of propaganda, their images were used to encourage men to enlist. Cookbooks, pamphlets, posters, sheet music and children's literature all served as recruiting tools to bring every American citizen into the war effort. Celia Kingsbury, Ph.D., University of Central Missouri, will ...
Contact: DSPStateMuseum@dnr.mo.gov
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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Concert Commemorating the Centennial of the End of World War I
Dates: 07:30pm - 09:30pm
On November 7 & 8, 2018, the Melbourne Municipal Band, under the direction of Ms. Staci Rosbury, will present a special tribute to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The concert will feature distinguished guest conductors Col. Bryan Shelburne, former director of the US Army Band “Pershing’s Own;” Col. Hal Gibson, former director of the US Army Field Band; and Dr. Dan Bolin, former professor of music and chairman of the music department at Butler University in Indianapolis.The band will perform music that was popular during World War I including both hit songs and patriotic classics. You ...
Contact: info@melbournemunicipalband.org
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Rosie's Mom and other stories of the Michigan WW1 Home Front
Dates: 07:30pm - 09:00pm
Rosie's Mom and other stories of the Michigan World War 1 Home Front
Wednesday November 7, 2018
7:30 PM at the Yankee Air Museum, General Purpose Room, Willow Run Airport
Yankee Air Museum 47884 D St, Belleville, MI 48111 (East Side of Airport)
Presenter: Michigan World War 1 Centennial Commissioner Dennis Skupinski
Twenty years before Rosie the Riveter and the Willow Run Plant, Rosie's Mom helped the United States win the World War. Women were part of Michigan's World War 1 work effort, building bomber airplanes, Liberty engines and other material for the war effort. Learn about Rosie's Mom during the war plus the birth of ...
Contact: 734-483-4030
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates:
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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates:
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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates:
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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Imperial Implosions: World WarI and its Global Implications
Dates:
Imperial Implosions: World WarI and its Global Implications
California State University at Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, and the History Department are pleased to announce that it will host a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on November 8th and 9th, 2018. The focus of the conference is Imperial Implosions: The Global Implications of World War I.
Featured speakers at the conference will be Professor Sean McMeekin of Bard College and the author of The Russian Revolution (2017) and The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2015) and Professor Pria Satia, ...
Contact: scott.corbett@csuci.edu
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MAPS World War One Exhibit
Dates:
Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
Dates:
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:
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:
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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
Dates:
The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
Dates:
See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
Dates:
This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
Dates:
San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
and
San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates:
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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates:
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
727
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World War I Display
Dates:
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:
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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“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
Dates:
“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
Fine Arts Building Gallery, Los Angeles
811 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017
N o v. 8 - Dec. 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Art Walk Thursday, Nov. 8, 6-8pm, with Live Jazz
Curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., Lecturer in Art History, Oklahoma State Universitypriscilla.schwarz@okstate.edu
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition will feature enlarged photographs of his public commissions and original archival material, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of ...
Contact: Lisa Ames - lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition, curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., will feature enlarged photographs of Johnson's CA and NY public commissions, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of the armistice signing. His Huntington Park fountain memorial, apparently the earliest WWI memorial in California, is of a girl clutching two military caps. In Garfield Park, Pomona, CA, stands a 7-foot tall heroic pair: an allegorical ...
Contact: lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
Contact:
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: 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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Montana In the Great War
Dates: 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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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
New Jersey During World War I: An Exhibit
"Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I" focuses on the stories of New Jerseyans and the affect the war had on those at home and fighting abroad.
It delves into topics such as the prelude to war, the home front, the roles of African Americans and women and how art, music and photography played a part during the War.
Through unique displays, artifacts and historic recreations, the story of New Jersey and World War I is told in this innovative exhibit.
Parking and admission are free. Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information ...
Contact: Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information about this and other programs.
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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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2018 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Day Ceremony
Dates: 10:30am - 12:00pm
2018 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Day Ceremony
The HUD Veterans Affinity Group (VAG), the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chapter of the Veterans Employee Association (VEA), the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHS), and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs VACO (VAG/Center for Minority Veterans) will host the 2018 Veterans Day Ceremony and the theme is: ‘Honoring All Who Serve - WWI Centennial’ (1918 - 2018)’.
The 2018 Veterans Day Ceremony will honor, recognize, and remember the WWI Centennial: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/: (The United States World War I Centennial Commission was created by an Act ...
Contact: Walter.A.Elmore@hud.gov
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Governor's Proclamation & Citation & 8th & I Marine Barracks Recognition
Dates: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Governor's Proclamation & Citation & 8th & I Marine Barracks Recognition
On Thursday, October 25, 2018, the HUD Veterans Affinity Group (VAG) received the attached Proclamation and Governor's Citation from the Honorable Lawrence J. Hogan, JR., (Governor, State of Maryland) for the VAG’s patriotic efforts to execute programs, projects, and activities to commemorate the Centennial of World War One (WWI), and for remembering and honoring those members of our nation’s Armed Forces who sacrificed during WWI (1914 – 1918).
The Governors Proclamation and Citation will be on display at the 2018 HUD Veterans Day Ceremony scheduled for Thursday, November 8, 2018 (11:00a.m. ...
Contact: Walter.A.Elmore@hud.gov
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WWI - Lest We Forget
Dates: 10:30am - 01:00pm
Each year we partner with local organizations and this year we will be honoring WWI veterans.
Free lunch for all veterans.
This year's program will be held on November 8th at The Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Contact: darlene.mcmartin@pottcounty-ia.gov // Darlene McMartin
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Honoring our Veterans
Dates: 11:00am - 01:00pm
Honoring our Veterans
Join Us As We Commemorate The 100th Anniversary Of The Great War: World War 1 Veterans Luncheon.
Contact: darlene.mcmartin@pottcounty-ia.gov
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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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Prairie State College Veterans Day Ceremony
Dates: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Prairie State College Veterans Day Ceremony
Keynote speaker is State Representative Al Riley. He will make comments referencing WWI 100 anniversary of its conclusion.
During the program, there will be a segment giving recognition of WWI by reciting of a poem and the playing of the video: They Deserve Their Own Memorial.
Contact: gsanon@prairiestate.edu
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Re-dedication of the Chicago Council of Gold Star Mothers Memorial Monument
Dates: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Re-dedication of the Chicago Council of Gold Star Mothers Memorial Monument
Re-dedication of the Chicago Council of Gold Star Mothers Memorial Monument
This long forsaken monument was lost to the ages, but has been rediscovered and restored to it original form. Please join us to mark the triumphant return of the Chicago Council of Gold Star Mothers Memorial monument.
The event is open to the public and will include Marine Corps Recruiting Station will provide color guard support. Bugles Across America will play Taps. Rev. William Kenneally will provide the Invocation and Benediction. The schedule speakers will be Modie Lavin the USMC Gold ...
Contact: info.ccgsm@gmail.com
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The Nation Served: Wreath Laying Tribute to the States and Territories
Dates: 11:00am - 01:00pm
The Nation Served: Wreath Laying Tribute to the States and Territories
This ceremony launches a series of commemorative events giving a first look at the National World War l Memorial, Washington, DC and marks the Centennial of the Armistice that ended World War I. Representatives from each state and territory will place a wreath in the park to honor and remember all who served.
11:00 a.m. MC remarks, Jonathan Elias, Anchor/Reporter ABC 7 News (Confirmed)
11:05 a.m. Welcome remarks, Commissioner Terry Hamby (Confirmed)
11:10 a.m. Introduction of Guest Speaker (TBD)
11:11 a.m. Remarks, Guest Speaker (TBD)
11:20 a.m. Guest Speaker along with DC representative places first ...
Contact: mmacPhee@susandavis.com
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Day Ceremony -WWI Centennial (1918 - 2018)
Dates: 11:00am - 12:00pm
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Day Ceremony -WWI Centennial (1918 - 2018)
he HUD Veterans Affinity Group (VAG), the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chapter of the Veterans Employee Association (VEA), the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHS), and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs VACO (VAG/Center for Minority Veterans) will host the 2018 Veterans Day Ceremony and the theme is: ‘Honoring All Who Serve - WWI Centennial’ (1918 - 2018)’.
The 2018 Veterans Day Ceremony will honor, recognize, and remember the WWI Centennial: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/: (The United States World War I Centennial Commission was ...
Contact: walter.a.elmore@hud.gov
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: 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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State Capital World War 1 Centennial event
Dates: 12:00pm - 01:00pm
State Capital World War 1 Centennial event
Bell Ringing Ceremony
Thursday November 8,2018
100 N Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
World War 1 Centennial Bell Remembrance
Contact: Jerry Benson jbenson@legislature.mi.gov or phone: 517 373 2353
Contact: Contact: Jerry Benson jbenson@legislature.mi.gov or phone: 517 373 2353
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Women in Wartime: Tribute to the Women of WW1
Dates: 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Women in Wartime: Tribute to the Women of WW1
This event honors the women who supported the war efforts. The women of World War I demonstrated their ability to take on traditionally male roles and paved the way for future service of women in the U.S. military.
2:00 p.m. Coffee and welcome reception upon arrival
2:12 p.m. MC remarks, Tawanda Hanible, TV personality and Author (invited)
2:15 p.m. Welcome remarks, Commissioner Debra Anderson, Quartermaster, VFW (Confirmed)
2:20 p.m. Introduction of Rear Admiral Margaret Kibben, USN (Ret.) (Confirmed)
2:21 p.m. Invocation, Rear Admiral Margaret Kibben USN (Ret.)
2:23 p.m. Introduction of former National Commander of the American Legion, ...
Contact: mmacPhee@susandavis.com
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Historic Trolley Tour of WWI sites and memorials in Philadelphia
Dates: 04:00pm - 06:30pm
The Union League of Philadelphia Celebrates the Centennial Commemoration of the End of the Great War 1918 with a Historic Trolley Tour of WWI sites and memorials in Philadelphia
Participants will Meet in front of the Union League and the bus will depart at 4pm. The bus will visit various statues, memorials and plaques around the city. Come earlier if you want to visit the Heritage Center special exhibits!
The tour director will be our very own Dr. Andy Waskie. The bus is limited to the first 36 who sign up! Guests are welcome. Please note the Union League dress code will ...
Contact: Reserve at 215-587-5565 or activities@unionleague.org
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The Heroic Legacy: African Americans and Latinos of WW1
Dates: 04:00pm - 06:10pm
The Heroic Legacy: African Americans and Latinos of WW1
The war ushered in an era of change for all minorities, male and female, soldier and civilian. This event honors the sacrifice and service of minorities during WWI.
4:00 p.m. Coffee and welcome reception upon arrival
4:10 p.m. Welcome remarks, Commissioner Carol Moseley Braun (invited)
4:05 p.m. Introduction of Reverend Dr. Calvin Cage, former USA Captain (Confirmed)
4:06 p.m. Invocation, Reverend Dr. Calvin Cage
4:08 p.m. Introduction of Gerald York, grandson of Medal of Honor recipient, Sergeant Alvin York, USA (Confirmed)
4:09 p.m. Remarks, Gerald York
4:14 p.m. Introduction of Congressman Anthony Brown, U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 4th Congressional ...
Contact: mmacPhee@susandavis.com
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Armistice Party at the McConnell Mansion
Dates: 06:00pm - 08:30pm
Armistice Party at Historical McConnell Mansion
The Latah County Historical Society is throwing an Armistice Party at the Historic McConnell Mansion located at 110 S.Adams Street in Moscow, Idaho starting at 6 pm.
All three chapters of the museum's acclaimed "World War One Latah County Stories will be on display at the same time under one roof.
Food and refreshments will be available.
For more information contact Curator Zachary Wnek at (208) 882-1004,
Contact: Zachary Wnek at (208) 882-1004
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The Great War in America Panel Discussion
Dates: 06:00pm - 07:30pm
The Great War in America Panel Discussion
Join the Woodrow Wilson House for a WWI panel discussion on the unexpected social changes precipitated by the Great War. Authors Garrett Peck (The Great War in America: WWI and its Aftermath) and Don Shomette (The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay), moderated by Edwin Fountain, Vice Chair of the United States World War One Centennial Commission, discuss the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, the labor movement and Prohibition. Mr. Peck is available to sign books following the program.
Contact: sandrews@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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Lecture: The History of Fort Myer
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:00pm
The History of Fort Myer
Special Lecture on the history of Fort Myer by Kim Bernard Holien, former Historian at Fort Myer in Arlington County, Virginia.
Event sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society.
Contact: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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REMEMBERING WWI, A TRIBUTE TO THE GWINNETT SERVICEMEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED
Dates: 07:00pm - 08:30pm
GCPL, in partnership with the Gwinnett Historical Society, the GA WWI Centennial Commission, and OneStop Centerville, present an exploration of the impact that World War I had on Gwinnett County. This program will also focus on the 30+ Gwinnett residents who died in the war. There will be a display of the uniforms worn by our armed services in WWI, a pictorial history of Gwinnett during this time period, and a photo display of the the servicemen we lost.
Contact: 770-978-5154
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Remembering World War I: A Tribute to the Gwinnett Servicemen Who Fought and Died
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:00pm
Gwinnett County Public Library, in partnership with the Gwinnett Historical Society, The GA WWI Centennial Commission, and OneStop Centerville, presents an exploration of the impact World War I had on Gwinnett County. This program will also focus on the 30 plus Gwinnett residents who died in the war. There will be a display of uniforms worn by our armed services in WWI, a pictorial history of Gwinnett during this time period, and a photo display of the servicemen we lost.
Contact: events@gwinnettpl.org
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Concert Commemorating the Centennial of the End of World War I
Dates: 07:30pm - 09:30pm
On November 7 & 8, 2018, the Melbourne Municipal Band, under the direction of Ms. Staci Rosbury, will present a special tribute to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The concert will feature distinguished guest conductors Col. Bryan Shelburne, former director of the US Army Band “Pershing’s Own;” Col. Hal Gibson, former director of the US Army Field Band; and Dr. Dan Bolin, former professor of music and chairman of the music department at Butler University in Indianapolis.The band will perform music that was popular during World War I including both hit songs and patriotic classics. You ...
Contact: info@melbournemunicipalband.org
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Over There: The Music of World War One
Dates: 07:30pm
Joseph N. Rubin's Orchestra pays tribute to the music that won "The Great War" in Over There: The Music of World War One. This concert will transport audiences on a musical journey through popular music of the war years of 1914-1918 by some of the greatest American composers of all time including George M Cohan, Jerome Kern, and Victor Herbert. Immortal songs "Over There," "K-K-K Katy," "Smiles," "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm," "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" and more will be brought to life again in their original orchestrations for the first time in a century. Heidi ...
Contact: Email info@summitwwi.org.
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NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald
Dates: 08:00pm - 10:30pm
Arís is a non-profit theatre company based in Atlanta, GA - presenting plays from and about Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. We wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day to remember, lest we forget, the terrible cost of war. We also wish to honor the legacy of the poets who found beauty and friendship in the midst of unspeakable ugliness and tragedy, and whose work still inspires us today. This moving play by Stephen MacDonald is based on the real-life friendship between noted World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Against the backdrop of the horrors ...
Contact: aris@aristheatre.org
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100th Anniversary of the End of WWI
Dates:
100th Anniversary of the End of WWI, International Veterans Day Ceremony including three day Living History Commemoration with WWI Trenches and Reenactments at Sgt. York’s Home in Pall Mall, TN
Contact: (931) 879-6456
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
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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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
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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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
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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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Imperial Implosions: World WarI and its Global Implications
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Imperial Implosions: World WarI and its Global Implications
California State University at Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, and the History Department are pleased to announce that it will host a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on November 8th and 9th, 2018. The focus of the conference is Imperial Implosions: The Global Implications of World War I.
Featured speakers at the conference will be Professor Sean McMeekin of Bard College and the author of The Russian Revolution (2017) and The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2015) and Professor Pria Satia, ...
Contact: scott.corbett@csuci.edu
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MAPS World War One Exhibit
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Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
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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
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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
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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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
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The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
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See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
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This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
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San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
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San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
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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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
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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
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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
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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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“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
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“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
Fine Arts Building Gallery, Los Angeles
811 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017
N o v. 8 - Dec. 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Art Walk Thursday, Nov. 8, 6-8pm, with Live Jazz
Curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., Lecturer in Art History, Oklahoma State Universitypriscilla.schwarz@okstate.edu
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition will feature enlarged photographs of his public commissions and original archival material, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of ...
Contact: Lisa Ames - lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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All Is Calm
Dates: 07:30am - 05:00pm
Christmas of 1914. Out of the violence- a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Mans Land singing Stille Nacht. This begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story told in the words and song of the men who lived them.
Contact: office@lauralittletheatricals.com
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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition, curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., will feature enlarged photographs of Johnson's CA and NY public commissions, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of the armistice signing. His Huntington Park fountain memorial, apparently the earliest WWI memorial in California, is of a girl clutching two military caps. In Garfield Park, Pomona, CA, stands a 7-foot tall heroic pair: an allegorical ...
Contact: lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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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Memories of WWI – A Symposium
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Memories of World War I - A Symposium
Friday, November 9 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Carlson Library, Room 1005
In this free and public daylong UT symposium, scholars from various disciplines and institutions discuss and critically examine local, national and international repercussions as well as cultural representations and memories of WWI. Clustered around three over-arching concepts “Impact, Identity, Innovation,” the symposium is divided into two morning sessions, and one afternoon session. The papers presented offer a wide variety of topics, ranging from local history to national and international history, as well as art, music, theater, gender, cross-dressing, and memory culture. Conference participants ...
Contact: TheArts@utoledo.edu
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New York & New Yorkers in World War I
Dates: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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World War I Centennial Symposium
Dates: 08:00am - 03:00pm
World War I Centennial Symposium
Widener University will host a daylong public symposium that marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The “World War I Centennial Symposium” will explore the rationale for the Great War, its impact, legacy, and Widener University’s connections to the conflict.The day will feature three 30-minute lectures, a Veterans Day ceremony, a talk on the poster art of World War I that features more than a dozen historic posters, and a closing reception in our Pennsylvania Military College museum, which features a new World War I exhibit.
Contact: mallen@widener.edu
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
Contact:
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: 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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Centennial of Polish Independence & American-Polish Relations
Dates: 09:00am - 03:45pm
Centennial of Polish Independence & American-Polish Relations
Program for November 9th at VSU:
SCHOLARLY SESSION: THE UNITED STATES & POLANDAshley Hall Rotunda, 9:00 AM to Noon. Free & open to publicKEYNOTE ADDRESS:"Polonia Restituta: The Centennial of Polish Independence, and itsSignificance in Modern History,” by Neal Pease, History, Professor of History,University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Editor-in-Chief of The Polish ReviewUNITED STATES & POLAND1. “A Georgian in Poland’s November Insurrection, 1831”John P. Dunn, Professor of History, Valdosta State University2. “Fords, Food, and Flyers: Americans in Poland 1918-1921,”Mathew Adams, Asst. Prof. of History, Savannah State University3. “Free Again: The United States and Poland’s way out ...
Contact: jdunn@valdosta.edu
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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Denver 1918
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Denver 1918
This exhibit explores the lives of Denverites during the final year of the Great War and the beginning of the next American chapter.
Contact: lspurlin@denverlibrary.org
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
New Jersey During World War I: An Exhibit
"Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I" focuses on the stories of New Jerseyans and the affect the war had on those at home and fighting abroad.
It delves into topics such as the prelude to war, the home front, the roles of African Americans and women and how art, music and photography played a part during the War.
Through unique displays, artifacts and historic recreations, the story of New Jersey and World War I is told in this innovative exhibit.
Parking and admission are free. Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information ...
Contact: Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information about this and other programs.
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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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: 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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Tribute to the Homefront
Dates: 12:00pm - 01:15pm
Tribute to the Homefront
The war abroad meant daily life on the homefront was drastically altered and those at home seized any opportunity to aid the war efforts. This event honors the contributions of organizations that served on the homefront during the extraordinary times of World War I.
12:00 p.m. Guests offered box lunches as they enter and proceed to seats
100 Cities/100 Memorials photo slides playing
12:10 p.m. Welcome remarks, Commissioner Libby O’Connell (Confirmed)
12:20 p.m. Introduction of American Red Cross Representative (TBD)
12:21 p.m. Remarks, American Red Cross Representative (TBD)
12:26 p.m. Introduction of Purple Hearts Reunited Presentation (Confirmed)
12:27 p.m. Purple Hearts Reunited representative presents ...
Contact: mmacPhee@susandavis.com
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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Massachusetts 8th grade WW1 Art Competition
Dates: 01:00pm - 02:00pm
The award ceremony for the World War One Massachusetts 8th Grade Art Competition.
Officiated by Secretary of Education Jim Peyser and The Massachusetts World War One Centennial Commission
Contact: Len Kondratiuk 978-369-4807
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Blue Star Memorial Dedication: Mount Airy
Dates: 03:00pm - 04:30pm
Blue Star Memorial Dedication: Mount Airy
The Mountain View Gardeners Garden Club recently partnered with Dr. John L. Gravitte to sponsor Mount Airy’s first Blue Star Memorial Highway. A patriotic dedication ceremony is slated for Friday, November 9, ahead of a full schedule of local events for Veteran’s Day weekend.
The Blue Star became an icon in World War II for the blue star in the service flag which hung in the windows of homes, churches and businesses to honor the sons and daughters away at war. The Blue Star program began in 1944 with the planting of 8,000 dogwood trees by ...
Contact: marketing@dentistrywithheart.com
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WWI Centennial Commemoration - Fort Smith
Dates: 03:00pm - 04:00pm
WWI Centennial Commemoration - Fort Smith
Trane Custom Commercial HVAC Manufacturing Facility will host an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. This event will include flag raising, commemorative stone dedication, and reading of the history of the war and the armistice. Taps will be played and Marine Corps League River Valley Det 1248 will provide a rifle salute and the Flag detail.
Comments and dedication will be provided by the Plant Manager and Colonel in the USMC Reserve, Philip B Farr.
Event will conclude with a cake cutting ceremony marking the 243rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Contact: philip.farr@irco.com
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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Voices from the Great War
Dates: 07:00pm
“Voices from the Great War,” History/Theater Performance at 7:00 pm at the Belle Mehus in Bismarck
Contact: Belle Mehus
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Not About Heroes - Theatre Production
Dates: 07:30pm
Full production of Stephen MacDonald's 1982 play "Not About Heroes," the real-life meeting of Lt. Siegfried Sassoon and Lt.Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital in 1917. Both were British officers who had been awarded The Military Cross for gallantry, wounded in battle, (physically and mentally,) yet both powerful poets and writers about the inhumanity of the war as it affected the men in the trenches.Production: November 2 -18, 2018 (including matinees on both Nov 4, the 100th Anniversary of Owen's death, and Nov 11. at 2:00 pm) at The Black Box Theatre, (RPHS) in Milwaukie, Oregon. Details and tickets at ...
Contact: kevingyell@gmail.com
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Bells of Peace Film Festival
Dates: 08:00pm - 11:00pm
Bells of Peace Film Festival
This film festival occurs on every Friday night from August 17th and concluding on November 11th. This festival is for family, friends and customers and is held in a greenhouse converted to a cinema for showing of the following films: “The Big Parade,” “Wings,” “All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),” “Hell’s Angels,” “The Grand Illusion,” “Dawn Patrol (1938),” For Me and My Gal,” “Paths of Glory,” “The Fighting 69th,” “Sergeant York,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Lost Battalion,” and “War Horse.”
Contact: ewittkofs@aol.com
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NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald
Dates: 08:00pm - 10:30pm
Arís is a non-profit theatre company based in Atlanta, GA - presenting plays from and about Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. We wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day to remember, lest we forget, the terrible cost of war. We also wish to honor the legacy of the poets who found beauty and friendship in the midst of unspeakable ugliness and tragedy, and whose work still inspires us today. This moving play by Stephen MacDonald is based on the real-life friendship between noted World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Against the backdrop of the horrors ...
Contact: aris@aristheatre.org
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100th Anniversary of the End of WWI
Dates:
100th Anniversary of the End of WWI, International Veterans Day Ceremony including three day Living History Commemoration with WWI Trenches and Reenactments at Sgt. York’s Home in Pall Mall, TN
Contact: (931) 879-6456
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African Americans Fighting for a Double Victory
Dates:
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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Aviation Museum of Kentucky
Dates:
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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From Home Front to Western Front: Life During World War I
Dates:
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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Here at Home: An Exhibit in Missouri State Museum
Dates:
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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Lincoln Memorial Shrine Commemorate the Great War with New Exhibits
Dates:
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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MAPS World War One Exhibit
Dates:
Recently opened display in the Ohio Military Museum section, located on the mezzanine level, accessible by elevator. The display covers the story of World War One from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, through the occupation of Germany by the victorious Allies after the war. The display consists of text, posters, photographs, art work, and uniforms and artifacts of the American Doughboy, including a life-size fully equipped Doughboy mannequin. American volunteers, such as the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers for France, who entered the war before America officially became a ...
Contact: 330.896.6332
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Maine in World War I
Dates:
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:
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:
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 and Down Home: An Exhibit at the Maine State Museum
Dates:
The exhibit tells the story of Maine’s participation in the Great War through artifacts, pictures, and interpretive displays. The exhibit will feature Maine service members' uniforms from World War I, depict how the war impacted Maine, and highlights the role Maine industries played in the war effort.
Contact: Angela Goebel-Bain, Angela.Goebel-Bain@maine.gov
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Picturing World War I
Dates:
See period photographs of Ohioans during World War I. Learn about Camp Sherman, a massive training camp - third largest in the nation - near Chillicothe; participation by women and African Americans; and the work of non-combatants.
Contact: Call 800.686.6124
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Remembering the Great War - Butler County
Dates:
This traveling exhibit commemorates the centennial anniversary of Alabama's inolvement in WWI and enlivens an important period of history which often goes overlooked. Remembering the Great War tells the story of the war from the perspectives of Alabamians whose lives were shaped by the conflict.The exhibit was 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 Industrial Design students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and Associate Professor Shu-Wen Tzeng.For more information on the exhibit, ...
Contact: Annie Crenshaw (334) 382-6959 anniecrenshaw@centurytel.net
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San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition.
Dates:
San Jose State University Commemorates the Centennial of the End of the First World War
"San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition"
Thursday, November 1st to Friday, November 30th, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Art Gallery
Posters, maps and artifacts explain and commemorate the First World War, focusing on its impact on San Jose and the surrounding area.
Opening reception for "San Jose and World War One: A Centennial Exhibition."Thursday, November 1st, 2018 6:00 to 8:30 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 255
Dr. Karen English will speak on "A Tribute to American Poetry of the Great War"
and
San ...
Contact: Dr. Jonathan Roth at jonathan.roth@sjsu.edu or (408) 924-5505
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Three Thousand Miles From Home: Southeast Ohioans in the First World War
Dates:
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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WWI: The War to End All Wars
Dates:
Display includes uniforms, supplies, and stories of Lorain County citizens who served their country.
Contact: For more information, please call: (440) 322-3341
727
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World War I Display
Dates:
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:
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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“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
Dates:
“Burt Johnson’s World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918”
Fine Arts Building Gallery, Los Angeles
811 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017
N o v. 8 - Dec. 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Art Walk Thursday, Nov. 8, 6-8pm, with Live Jazz
Curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., Lecturer in Art History, Oklahoma State Universitypriscilla.schwarz@okstate.edu
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition will feature enlarged photographs of his public commissions and original archival material, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of ...
Contact: Lisa Ames - lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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Aircraft and Aviators of the First World War
Dates: 01:00am - 03:30pm
Aircraft and Aviators of the First World War
Captain Billy Walker will give a presentation on the "Aircraft and Aviators of the First World War" in the Arizona CAF Museum in Mesa, AZ. Attending the presentation is included in museum admission. Capt. Walker, a former Air America pilot in Southeast Asia, and well-known champion of military aviation history has deep personal knowledge about these heroes of the air and gives compelling accounts of key moments that became legend. From Luke, to Rickenbacker, to SPADs, Sopwiths and more -- Walker gives keen insight to the rapid development of tactics and the steely ...
Contact: media@azcaf.org
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Opening of the exhibition “The Album of Remembrance of Our Ancestors from World War I"
Dates: 05:00am - 07:30pm
Opening of the exhibition “The Album of Remembrance of Our Ancestors from World War I"
The exhibit of photographs of the project "Album of Remembrance of Our Ancestors from the World War I" presents photographs, war diaries, military letters, correspondence cards, memorials and other historical material of the participants of the World War I. These are unique testimonies of the war adventures and sufferings of the Serbian soldiers in the war years which were suppressed from the pages of world history. The exhibit "Album of Remembrance of Our Ancestors from the World War I" is a result of the desire, a ...
Contact: albumsecanja@slavnimprecima.rs
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All Is Calm
Dates: 07:30am - 05:00pm
Christmas of 1914. Out of the violence- a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Mans Land singing Stille Nacht. This begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story told in the words and song of the men who lived them.
Contact: office@lauralittletheatricals.com
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Annual Veterans Day Parade and Day of Honor
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
The Special Guests of Honor for the Milwaukee Veterans Day Parade and Day of Honor will be the Centennial Commemoration of the end of WWI. Our event takes place on November 10, 2018 in downtown Milwaukee. It includes a parade, displays, flyover and memorial service open to the public. All veterans and military who participate in the event also receive commemorative dog tags, breakfast and a lunch reception after. Commemorative posters and programs are also included.
Contact: vetsparademke@gmail.com
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Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Answering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI,” a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum, presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result.
Focusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy, including what he wore, what he ate, the equipment he carried, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection, ...
Contact: info@upcountryhistory.org
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Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Burt Johnson's World War One Memorials - Honoring the Centennial of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918
Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927), a young artist related to the famous American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created significantly distinct World War I memorials. This exhibition, curated by Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D., will feature enlarged photographs of Johnson's CA and NY public commissions, including a piece titled November 11th, the date of the armistice signing. His Huntington Park fountain memorial, apparently the earliest WWI memorial in California, is of a girl clutching two military caps. In Garfield Park, Pomona, CA, stands a 7-foot tall heroic pair: an allegorical ...
Contact: lisa@artmeetsarchitecture.com
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City of Colton Veterans Day - Amistice Centennial Event
Dates: 08:00am
The City of Colton's Armistice Centennial Event
Saturday - November 10, 2018
An event endorsed and approved by the California WW1 Centennial Task Force to commemorate, honor, and educate the citizens of the Great State of California.
8:00 a.m. - Prayer Ceremony - Pete S. Lugue Community Center, 292 East O Street, Colton
9:30 a.m. - Veterans Parade - South La Cadena Drive & O Street (north to Fleming Park,) Colton
10:30 a.m. - Honor Ceremony Fleming Park, at La Cadena and F Street, Colton
11:30 a.m. - Veteran's Showcase - Women's Club, 495 N. 7th Street, Colton
A morning devoted to our Veterans. The City of ...
Contact: Dr. Luis Gonzalez (909) 213-3739
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Harvey Dunn: War Works
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
This exhibition commemorates the100 year anniversary of the signing of an armistice between Allies and Germany on November 11, 1918, which ended combat in World War I. The exhibition includes war-themed artworks created by celebrated South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn, who was one of the eight official war artists commissioned by the American Expeditionary Forces. All works are drawn from the permanent collection of the South Dakota Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Contact: jodi.lundgren@sdstate.edu
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Here at Home: Missouri in the Great War
Dates: 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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Poppies: Women, War, Peace
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moina Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.
The story of Michael’s relentless, lifelong remembrance campaign is largely forgotten. Each ...
Contact: jclevela@uga.edu
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Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Remembering The Great War: One Hundred Years Later
The exhibit features over thirty extraordinary and powerful images taken of the war by the Photographic Section of the French Army. Also on exhibit are other World War I artifacts including patriotic posters and an American Army uniform. A silent documentary on American Troops in France, Pershing's Crusaders, plays in the gallery. The exhibit is open until fall 2018.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Swope's Cars of Yesteryear Museum
Dates: 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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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
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Time to Remember - The Armistice Watch
Exhibition of Commemorative Artwork 'Time to Remember' - The Armistice Watch. Over a three years period I have constructed an Armistice Watch, based loosely on a WW1 period timepiece, aimed at commemorating the Armistice and Ceasefire Centenary on 11th November 2018. This is a contemporary artwork created as a fitting tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in order for us to enjoy the lifestyle of today. This will be on loan to the Musée de l'Armistice in Compiègne, France, site of the signing of ...
Contact: the.ideas.source@gmail.com
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University of Akron World War I Displays
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
Archival Services of University Libraries at the University of Akron displays: "Documenting Our Doughboys," located on the first floor of Bierce Library, features historic letters and photographs from local soldiers. "Mary Gladwin and the Great War," located in Archival Services on the Lower Level of the Polsky Building in downtown Akron, showcases historic World War I photographs, letters, diaries, and medals of Akron nurse Mary E. Gladwin. Also on display in Archival Services is the display "Highlights from the Greatest History of the World War," which includes numerous scrapbooks featuring rare World War I newspapers, periodicals, and artworks published during ...
Contact: Call 330-972-7670
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WW 1 Commemoration Parade
Dates: 08:00am - 05:00pm
WW 1 Commemoration Parade
10am on Saturday November 10th 2018. A parade down Main Street Woodland, CA to the historic train Depot where our soldiers left to camp Lewis (Ft. Lewis) for training. The parade will including marching bands, floats, horses, antique automobiles and a WW1 ambulance. {Plus military representations, period costumes and an event at the depot with an artillery 21 gun salute.
Contact: steveatwt@gmail.com
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World War I: The Great War
Dates: 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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“There was Quiet Today”: 100 Years After WWI
Dates: 08:00am
On November 11, 1918 at 11:11 AM an armistice went into effect, ceasing the First World War. Embroiled in this conflict since April 1917, Americans served at home and overseas. When the U.S. went to war, Washington Countians went to war. Join us for a slate of activities including cemetery illumination and themed tours commemorating the end of WWI and Washington County’s involvement.
Contact: Call: 740.373.4180
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Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I
Dates: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City and World War I commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States entering what came to be known as “The Great War” - a critical time that left a major legacy in Buffalo, the United States, and the world.
This free public exhibition explores Buffalo, its people and the region’s contributions to the war effort during a globally turbulent period. Central to the exhibition is the Library’s extraordinary collection of stunning World War I posters, which were donated in 1919 by prominent Buffalonian Edward Michael. The collection includes posters from the United States, Canada, and ...
Contact: mosherl@buffalolib.org
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Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I
Dates: 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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"HEROES OR CORPSES": CAPTAIN TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
New Exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
“There we were watching New York’s skyline diminish, and wondering if we’d be heroes or corpses,” Harry S. Truman later recalled as he departed New York for the battlefields of France in the spring of 1918. Truman returned a hero, and his service helped set him on the path to the presidency.
“‘Heroes or Corpses’: Captain Truman in World War I” tells the captivating story of Truman’s service in the Great War through never-before-exhibited photographs, personal letters and more than 40 artifacts from Truman’s personal World War I collection. http://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/library-museum/museum-exhibits/temporary-exhibits/
View the loving cup ...
Contact:
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A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
Dates: 09:00am - 05:00pm
A World at War: The Marine Corps and U.S. Navy in World War I Art Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the National Museum of the Marine Corps (NMMC) has opened a joint art exhibition depicting the story of the Marines and Sailors who fought and died in "the war to end all wars" and honors their memory a century later.
Contact: johnathan.jones@usmcu.edu
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Bucking Bronchos- The Wyoming Experience in World War I
Dates: 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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WWI & America's Involvement
Dates: 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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1918 - Central Ohio Jews & the World War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:30pm
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society has a new exhibit on view in their new space The Historical Collection. This exhibit explores our community in 1918, the 262 Jewish veterans of WWI from Central Ohio, their lives in camp and "over there" and their lives at home.
The Columbus Jewish Historical Society is open 10-3:30 Monday-Friday, the first Sunday of each month, and by appointment.
Contact: Call 614.238.6977
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Alexandrians Fight The Great War
Dates: 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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Armistice: Commemorating the End of the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 03:00pm
Armistice: Commemorating the End of the Great War
Armistice: Commemorating the End of the Great War. Join us while we honor all veterans and celebrate the end of our Remembering the Great War: One Hundred Years Later exhibit. The event will include a Native American Honor Guard posting the colors, WWI U.S. Cavalry Display, Concourse Poppy Display, and thank you gifts for veterans.
Contact: mstafford@nevadaculture.org
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Dates: 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: 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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COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR:THE RED ARROW DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I
100 years ago, the world was at war on an unprecedented scale. There was fighting between empires across Europe, the Middle East, and even Africa with no end in site. In 1917, the United States joined the war in an effort to bring this "war to end all wars" to a stop and win victory for its allies. The young men from the Tri-Cities that volunteered for this fight would go on to see action in some of the most crucial battles from the late stages of the war. Their stories ...
Contact: PH # 616 842 0700
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Ceremony at Baltimore National Cemetery
Dates: 10:00am
A special ceremony will be held on the grounds of the Baltimore National Cemetery, Section A. At 10:00am Fort McHenry rangers and volunteers will honor the service of Nurse Emily Raine Williams. Williams served as the Chief Nurse at Fort McHenry General Hospital No. 2 from 1917—1919. On the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI she will be honored with a ceremony including readings, the playing of taps, and the singing of the national anthem.
Contact: (410) 962-4290 x 250
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Denver 1918
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Denver 1918
This exhibit explores the lives of Denverites during the final year of the Great War and the beginning of the next American chapter.
Contact: lspurlin@denverlibrary.org
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Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Doughboys And Flyboys: WWI Stories By Vermonters From The Home And Battlefront exhibit at Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont
To commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice that ended WWI and those who served, Middlebury Vermont's Henry Sheldon Museum is featuring the exhibit "Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront," which runs from July 31, 2018 through November 11. According to statistics compiled by Vermont's Adjutant General, approximately 16,000 Vermont men served in the military during WWI, half of whom - 8,000 - were overseas. Of those, 629 were killed in action or died in service ...
Contact: mmanley@henrysheldonmuseum.org
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Honoring The Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Contemporary WWI Photo Exhibit, "Honoring the Doughboys, Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary"
By Jeff Lowdermilk
New Mexico History Museum, in the Meem Room
Contact: (505) 476-5200
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Dates: 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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New Mexico Military Museum WWI Exhibit
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The museum will host the State of New Mexico’s World War I interactive exhibit opening Memorial Day weekend in Santa Fe. The purpose of the exhibit is to educate Americans about WWI and highlight the sacrifices made by the Citizens of New Mexico less than 5 years after becoming the 47thState.
The two year exhibit features a WWI SE5 Biplane, a UB6 Submarine turret, a replica of Roswell’s Battery A Bunker, a replica of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, a 1916 Harley Davidson, and many WWI weapons and equipment. Working in conjunction with the World War I Centennial Commission, ...
Contact: nmmmfoundation@gmail.com
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North Texas and World War I: Welcome Home
Dates: 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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Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
New Jersey During World War I: An Exhibit
"Over There, Over Here: New Jersey During World War I" focuses on the stories of New Jerseyans and the affect the war had on those at home and fighting abroad.
It delves into topics such as the prelude to war, the home front, the roles of African Americans and women and how art, music and photography played a part during the War.
Through unique displays, artifacts and historic recreations, the story of New Jersey and World War I is told in this innovative exhibit.
Parking and admission are free. Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information ...
Contact: Text CULTURE to 56512 for more information about this and other programs.
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Remembrance Ceremony for World War I Veterans at Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
Dates: 10:00am - 11:00pm
Remembrance Ceremony for World War I Veterans at Sheridan Municipal Cemetery
Remembering the lives of nineteen WWI veterans whose previously unmarked graves are now marked or are in the process of being marked with military headstones, the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day, WWI casualties from Sheridan County and WWI veterans interred at Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Bring your relatives names and information to be added to the Roll of Honor. Sponsored by the Alexander Slidell MacKenzie Chapter U.S.D. 1812.
Contact: tammyar.mansfield@gmail.com
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Stan Hywet and the Great War
Dates: 10:00am - 06:00pm
The Seiberling family provided financial support for war-related organizations, shifted rubber production from domestic to military goods, and sent their sons and grandsons into battle to fight two world wars. In addition to touring the Seiberling estate, guests may view the permanent exhibit, “The Seiberling Legacy,” which highlights the family's legacy including their contributions to both world wars.
Contact: Visit www.stanhywet.org for hours of operation.
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The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
In the middle of the Potomac in Mallows Bay, lies the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere, a haunting legacy of WWI. In April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson approved the greatest shipbuilding program in history: an order for 1,000 ships to make up the shortage of transport vessels needed for the war effort. The war ended before any ships were put into service and hundreds were simply scrapped in the Bay. This exhibit will explore the history of this “Ghost Fleet,” tell the stories behind a scandalous wartime boondoggle and highlight the rich archaeological ...
Contact: wilsonhouse@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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The Great War -- Birth of US Military Aviation
Dates: 10:00am - 04:00pm
The Great War -- Birth of US Military Aviation
The Great War -- Birth of US Military Aviation exhibit will open at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, AZ on November 10, 2018. This is the newest exhibit in central Arizona's top-rated military aviation museum (TripAdvisor). The exhibit will also become part of the permanent collection and includes artifacts from the service of Major A.J. MacElroy of the U.S. Air Service, a full size replica of the Nieuport 28 flown by Eddie Rickenbacker and compelling stories about the people and planes who advanced aviation technology, served their country -- ...
Contact: media@azcaf.org
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The Great War and the Great Flu
Dates: 10:00am - 08:00pm
An exhibit detailing the history of World War I and its impact on Akron history, including the local effects of the Influenza Pandemic of 2018.
Contact: 330.643.9030
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WWI Centennial Exhibition
Dates: 10:00am - 05:00pm
Two WWI exhibitions under one roof. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has two exhibitions commemorating WWI on display now.
WW1 America is the largest traveling exhibition about the Great War and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture is its only scheduled stop on the east coast! This exhibition on display from
February 17 to July 29, 2018, features more than 100 objects, powerful multimedia presentations, and interactive experiences. It focuses on the war as a transformational event. Themes such as immigration and migration, racial conflict, women’s rights, labor struggles, challenges to civil liberties, and the meaning of citizenship are explored.
The Commonwealth and the ...
Contact: tschneider@virginiahistory.org
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World War 1 Exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum
Dates: 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: Beyond the Front Lines
Dates: 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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WWI Centennial Programs at Fort McHenry
Dates: 10:15am - 02:15pm
Help park rangers raise a 48-star flag above the Fort at 10:00am and explore some hands-on history exhibits in our World War I Centennial Room. Wearing uniforms of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, interpreters will discuss Fort McHenry’s busiest era of military service when an expansive 3,000 bed military hospital was constructed there to receive and treat the wounded returning from the Western Front. At 2:15, join us in the Visitor Center for a special presentation on the history and legacy of General Hospital No. 2 at Fort McHenry.
Contact: (410) 962-4290 x 250
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Morris County Heritage Commission Program - “The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month”
Dates: 10:30am - 03:00pm
Morris County Heritage Commission Program - “The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month”
The Morris County Heritage Commission’s program “The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month” will take place on Saturday, November 10, beginning at 10 a.m., at the Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Avenue, Whippany, NJ.
Kathy Murphy, Chair, Morris County Heritage Commission, will welcome attendees at 10 a.m.
Various speakers will present WWI-related topics throughout the day. The first presenter will be Amery Vasso, Morris County Commander, American Legion. He’ll discuss the history of the American Legion, chartered in 1919. His talk ...
Contact: PShultz@co.morris.nj.us
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Bravest of the Brave: The Native Americans of World War I
Dates: 11:00am - 12:10pm
Bravest of the Brave: The Native Americans of World War I
When the United States entered World War I, Native Americans were not yet citizens. Though they could not be drafted, Native American men volunteered to serve. This event recognizes the courageous contributions Native Americans made on behalf of our nation throughout World War I.
11:00 a.m. Coffee and welcome reception upon arrival to Bravest of the Brave event
11:15 a.m. Welcome remarks, Commissioner Edwin Fountain (Confirmed)
11:20 a.m. Introduction of President Jefferson Keel, National Congress of American Indians (Confirmed)
11:21 a.m. Remarks, President Jefferson Keel
11:31 a.m. Introduction of the film “A Soldier’s Journey”
11:32 a.m. ...
Contact: mmacPhee@susandavis.com
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Celebrate Calvert WWI Veterans with the Naval Academy Brass Quintet (PF)
Dates: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Calvert Library commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Highlighted will be the names of those who served and died, as listed on the Court House monument, erected in 1920. The Naval Academy Brass Quintet will be providing a musical tribute starting at 10:45 AM. George Owings III, Maryland Secretary of Veterans Affairs, will provide the introduction.
Joyce Baki will speak about the World War I Monument and the 18 men who gave their lives during World War I.
For more information: https://calvertlibrary.info/
Contact: 410-535-0291
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Daughters of the British Empire WW1 Centennial Commemoration
Dates: 11:00am - 01:00pm
Daughters of the British Empire WW1 Centennial Commemoration
The Daughters of the British Empire, St. Bernard Parish Government, the St. Bernard Tourist Commission and PBF Refinery will host a WWI Centennial Commemoration at the WW1 Memorial Plaque located in the Historic St. Bernard Catholic Church and Cemetery. The event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Ktommaseo@sbpg.net
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Over Here, Over There
Dates: 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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Tarrant Co. Veterans Day Parade
Dates: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Annual Tarrant County Veterans Day Parade saluting all veterans of all wars with this year's emphasis on the WWI centennial and the War to End all Wars.
Contact: parade@tcvc.us
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Tarrant Co. Veterans Day Parade
Dates: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Tarrant Co. Veterans Day Parade
Parade through Downtown Fort Worth to honor all of America's military veterans, as well as saluting the centennial of World War I and the establishment of Armistice Day.
Contact: parade@tcvc.us
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Old Dominion, Over There
Dates: 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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Uniforms of the Western Front
Dates: 12:00pm - 05:00pm
Over 25 combat uniforms of the Western Front are on display.
Contact: dennis_skupinski@yahoo.com
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WWI Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" Exhibit Opens
Dates: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
The opening of the World War I exhibit "WW1 Idaho Forestry Soldiers: Call to Action" at the J.Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Idaho State Pen Historical Building, which is part of the Idaho State Historical Society.
The exhibit will be open to public viewing this week and will continue until the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day on November 11, 2018.
Contact: idahoworldwar1centennial@gmail.com
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An Unfamiliar Performance: Fances Golden's Journey through WWI
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:30pm
The Golden Troupe is a permanent exhibition in Thrall’s Opera House, which served as their home theatre. Each year, a different aspect of the Troupe is explored. This year’s display focuses on Frances Golden, the youngest of the Golden Family in her journey with the YMCA to entertain troops during WWI.
Contact: mpatterson2@indianamuseum.org
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Baltimore County Public Library Veterans Day Program
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
Members of The Maryland Military Band will perform patriotic music and music of World War One for a Veterans Day program at the Lansdowne branch of the Baltimore County Public Library. This special free program will begin with a performance by a brass quintet made up of musicians from The Maryland Military Band, followed by arts and crafts for all ages with library staff, including making memorial poppies in commemoration of the WWI centennial, and the opportunity to send a postcard to a veteran or active duty member of the armed forces thanking them for their service. (www.bcpl.info/locations/lansdowne/index.html)
Contact: 410-887-5602
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Dedication of Veteran Grave Marker for WWI Red Cross Nurse Florence Matthews
Dates: 01:00pm - 02:00pm
Dedication of Veteran Grave Marker for WWI Red Cross Nurse Florence Matthews (1870-1918), one of the six women on the Franklin Co Doughboy monument. She died of influenza while nursing at Crozer Hospital in Chester, PA.
Saturday, November 10, 1:00 pm
Contact: sueburkey@gmail.com
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Great War in Arlington Cemetery
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
Great War in Arlington Cemetery
'Their devotion, their valor and their sacrifice will live forever in the hearts of their grateful countryman,' declared General of the Armies John J. Pershing, referring to the over 100,000 Americans who died in World War I. Arlington Cemetery is the final resting place for not only their revered leader, General Pershing, but also for a lone soldier whose anonymous, though not forgotten, death prompted erection of one of the cemetery's most powerful sites: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Join this walk to pay tribute to them and to heroic battlefield nurses, the 'Buffalo Soldiers' ...
Contact: info@washingtonwalks.com
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The Dawes Family in World War I
Dates: 01:00pm - 02:00pm
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, this presentation at The Dawes Arboretum will showcase the Dawes family’s activities and participation in World War I. Original documents and photographs will be featured.
Contact: Call: 740-323-2355
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The Imprint of World War I
Dates: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
The Imprint of World War I
In 1917 the commanding personality of General John J. Pershing characterized the United States' belated foray into the war-weary battlefields of Europe. At home, President Woodrow Wilson's commitment to the Allied victory changed the character of both the federal government and of the nation's capital. Although Washington, D.C. awaits a national memorial to World War I, sites associated with the 'War to End All Wars' are hiding in plain sight, testimonies to the foot soldiers, generals, bureaucrats, and U.S. presidents involved in the cataclysmic conflict.
Contact: info@washingtonwalks.com
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Artifacts of the Great War
Dates: 02:00pm - 03:30pm
Glimpse Into History Series, Part 4: Historian Michael Brown presents actual artifacts and photos from his extensive World War I collection. This interactive program allows participants the opportunity to try on World War I clothing and equipment. Tickets available 45 minutes before program. Sponsored by the Friends of the Perry Hall Library.
Contact: 410-887-5195
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Voices from the Great War
Dates: 02:00pm
“Voices from the Great War,” History/Theater Performance at 2:00 pm at the Belle Mehus in Bismarck
Contact: Belle Mehus
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Anniversary Flag Unveiling
Dates: 04:00pm - 05:00pm
Anniversary Flag Unveiling
On Aug 9, 1920, the City Counsel of Colorado Springs presented to American Legion Post 5 of Colorado a silk flag for their first anniversary. This flag was rediscovered again. While researching this flag, it lead to the fact the flag was taken "Over There" by the Nation Guard Unit C Battery of 148th Field Artillery which had been formed in Colorado Springs. So, to honor these boys of Battery C, we had the flag framed and will be unveiled at midnight of the 11th in France to honor these long passed heroes.
Contact: keith.lamee@yahoo.com
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Father (1LT) Wm F. Davitt Memorial Ceremony
Dates: 04:00pm - 04:30pm
On November 11, 1918, Holyoke's own Father (1LT) William F. Davitt was Killed In Action at 9:45am in France. At 11am, just 1 hour and 15 min later WW1 ended and Father Wm Davitt was the last American Officer Killed In Action in WW1. Father Davitt lived an extraordinary life of service. Starting here in Massachusetts working with troubled youth to combat valor on the battlefields in France. He died as he lived, in service to others. Father Davitt is at final rest at Calvary Cememtery, 2140 Northampton St, Holyoke (near K-mart). On the eve of the 100th anniversary of ...
Contact: Brian Willette (413) 262-1031 or ssgbrian.willette@gmail.com
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"100 Years of Heroes" Dinner Gala
Dates: 05:00pm - 09:30pm
"100 Years of Heroes" Dinner Gala
This dinner gala is being organized to mark the the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I using a Michigan perspective. The event will include displays that tell the stories of 34 Michigan men and women who have served our country over the past 100 years beginning with WW I. It will also recognize and honor our state's current service personnel. Frank Beckmann will be the Master of Ceremonies for this event, which will feature SSG Travis Mills as the keynote speaker and music performed by The Governors Own 126 Army Band. Doors ...
Contact: mike@grobbel.org
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The New Orchestra of Washington: End of the War to End All Wars
Dates: 05:00pm - 06:30pm
The New Orchestra of Washington: End of the War to End All Wars
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I – the Great War – ended. The New Orchestra of Washington, Washington Master Chorale, and Music Viva NY commemorate this solemn occasion one hundred years later with a co-commission from acclaimed American composer Joseph Turrin, based on texts by war poets. The program also features works by Holst and and Ravel, both composers directly affected by World War I.
Contact: https://www.neworchestraofwashington.org/tickets/2018/11/10/end-of-the-war-to-end-all-wars
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Risley Centennial Celebration for the end of the First World War
Dates: 06:00pm - 12:00am
Cornell University Remembrance Event
The brainchild of Grady Owens, the Cornell University remembrance event for the end of the First World War will take place on November 10th. The event will include speeches from students and university officials, poems, final letters home, and songs from the First World War.
The Cornell University Glee Club, along with members of the Cornell community, will perform and the ROTC Tri Brigade Color Guard will be presenting the colors for the evening. A reading of all 264 names of those that perished will take place and a moment of silence will be observed. All are welcome
The ...
Contact: For more information please contact Grady Owens at gwo8@cornell.edu.
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John Brancy and Peter Dugan: A WWI Memorial in Song - The National Museum of American History
Dates: 07:00pm - 08:00pm
John Brancy and Peter Dugan: A WWI Memorial in Song The National Museum of American History
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, Armistice: The Journey Home explores timeless themes of loss, love, and longing for peace in the wake of catastrophe. Musical selections range from Schubert's Der Wanderer, to Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, plus popular tunes of the WWI era and rarely-heard songs by German composer Rudi Stephan, who was killed in the war.
Contact: https://airandspace.si.edu/events/silent-night-wwi-memorial-song
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Opera North Presents Silent Night
Dates: 07:00pm - 10:00pm
Opera North Presents Silent Night
Inspired by real events, Silent Night is a dramatic opera that tells the story of the 1914 Christmas truce, when peace spontaneously broke out in the trenches during World War I.A gruelling battle is being fought between German, French and Scottish soldiers. Each has a cross to bear and a story to tell. On Christmas Eve, 1914, German opera singer Nikolaus Sprink, now a soldier, is ordered to perform behind the front line. Back at the front later that night, upon hearing Scottish soldiers singing, Sprink responds with a rousing song, and midway through a bagpiper ...
Contact: info@operanorth.co.uk
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Polonia Goes to War!
Dates: 07:00pm - 09:30pm
On Oct. 12, 2018, the Polish Museum of America (PMA) will open its exhibit honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Independence Of Poland on Nov.11, 1918. Oct. 12 will mark the 101st Anniversary of the recruitment for the Polish Army in France, a force formed by the French, but formed in the early days of Poles living in the United States, who made up a significant part of the Army to include the junior officers. The effort was an international event with the recruits coming from the USA, trained in Canada by the Canadian Army and equipped by the French. ...
Contact: jan-lorys@Polishmuseumofamerica.org
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Voices from the Great War
Dates: 07:00pm
“Voices from the Great War,” History/Theater Performance at 2:00 pm at the Belle Mehus in Bismarck
Contact: Belle Mehus
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Washington National Opera Presents Silent Night
Dates: 07:00pm - 10:00pm
Washington National Opera Presents Silent Night
As Christmas Eve falls on a World War I battlefield, enemy soldiers step into no-man's-land for one miraculous night of peace. Based on the true story and 2005 film, Silent Night features Pulitzer Prize–winning music in multiple languages, capturing humanity and hope amidst a devastating war.The year is 1914 and the Great War has just been declared, dividing nations and sending millions into battle. As Christmas Eve falls on a battlefield near Belgium, soldiers in French, German, and Scottish trenches begin recalling songs of home, stepping into no-man’s-land for a spontaneous truce. Once sworn enemies, ...
Contact: info@kennedy-center.org
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Minnesota Opera Presents Silent Night
Dates: 07:30pm - 10:00pm
Minnesota Opera Presents Silent Night
Recounting a miraculous moment of peace during one of the bloodiest wars in human history, Scottish, French, and German officers defy their superiors and negotiate a Christmas Eve truce. The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera underscores the yearning, despair, and hope of the soldiers living in the trenches. "Silent Night" masterfully juxtaposes the bombastic sounds of war with serene songs from home, and stands as a heartfelt hymn to our common humanity.
Contact: tickets@mnopera.org
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Not About Heroes - Theatre Production
Dates: 07:30pm
Full production of Stephen MacDonald's 1982 play "Not About Heroes," the real-life meeting of Lt. Siegfried Sassoon and Lt.Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital in 1917. Both were British officers who had been awarded The Military Cross for gallantry, wounded in battle, (physically and mentally,) yet both powerful poets and writers about the inhumanity of the war as it affected the men in the trenches.Production: November 2 -18, 2018 (including matinees on both Nov 4, the 100th Anniversary of Owen's death, and Nov 11. at 2:00 pm) at The Black Box Theatre, (RPHS) in Milwaukie, Oregon. Details and tickets at ...
Contact: kevingyell@gmail.com
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Cantori New York Armistice Commemoration
Dates: 08:00pm - 10:00pm
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Award-winning choral ensemble Cantori New York presents a program honoring the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I. Prominent French composer Thierry Escaich sets a gripping war narrative by best-selling novelist Laurent Gaudé for chorus, speaker, accordion, eight cellos and percussion. Conductor Mark Shapiro's English translation of the spoken text lends a searing immediacy to Escaich's seismic music. The concert closes with a new cycle for chorus and cello duet by New York composer Philip Lasser, setting texts by Frost, Hemingway and e. e. cummings, offering wisdom, sensitivity and healing. Performances Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8pm and Sunday, ...
Contact: info@cantorinewyork.com
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NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald
Dates: 08:00pm - 10:30pm
Arís is a non-profit theatre company based in Atlanta, GA - presenting plays from and about Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. We wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day to remember, lest we forget, the terrible cost of war. We also wish to honor the legacy of the poets who found beauty and friendship in the midst of unspeakable ugliness and tragedy, and whose work still inspires us today. This moving play by Stephen MacDonald is based on the real-life friendship between noted World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Against the backdrop of the horrors ...
Contact: aris@aristheatre.org
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