When the United States entered the war in 1917, the president of the American Library Association (ALA) appointed a War Service Committee, where there was a unanimous decision to supply library facilities in the camps of the American Expeditionary Forces. The Secretary of War appointed ten nationally known men and women to a Library War …
Category: Great War
WWI Weekly: War Horses, Doughboys, Fourteen Points, and Stravinsky
A weekly round-up of the most intriguing news about the First World War From the North Devon Journal, a YouTube upload of an exciting video: A TAPE providing a unique insight into the lives of the region’s war horses and their trainers following the First World War has been unearthed in North Devon. Cynthia Snowden …
WWI Wednesday: After Dark in London
Karl Kingsley Kitchen (1883-1935) was an American journalist and man-about-town who wrote witty columns for various New York newspapers chronicling his travels, his meals, and his famous supper party guests. In his 1916 book, After Dark in the War Capitals, Kitchen describes the appearance of various European capitals under the shadow of war. Though his …