Highlights: George Creel, Selling The War

Episode #117

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:10
• The Monroe Doctrine - Host | @ 06:40
• April at the Paris Peace Conference - Mike Shuster | @ 10:05
• War Memoirs from WWI: “Those We Loved” I.L. Read  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 14:00
• George Creel: Selling The War, Part 1 - Alan Axelrod | @ 19:20
• The Story of Helen Hagan - Yale News & Elizabeth Foxwell | @ 34:30
• The Dispatch - Host | @ 43:50

World War I - THEN

100 Years Ago This Week

The Headlines First Week of April, 1919 - Host

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com

The Monroe Doctrine Reviewed - Host

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=23

From the National Archives

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/monroe

United States State Department, The Office of the Historian

“New Article in League Draft  Saves Monroe Doctrine,” New York Times, April 11, 1919, p.1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/04/11/issue.html

The Great War

April at the Paris Peace Conference - Mike Shuster

http://greatwarproject.org/2019/03/31/frantic-effort-to-finish-the-treaty/

Stories of Service

War Memoirs from WWI: “Those We Loved” I.L. Read  - Dr. Edward Lengel

http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-british-soldiers-testament-to-those-we-loved-10-best-war-memoir/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/

http://bit.ly/2tILSQI

WWI Remembered

George Creel: Selling America on WWI Part 1 - Alan Axelrod

https://www.amazon.com/Alan-Axelrod/e/B001IQULA4

https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Great-War-American-Propaganda/dp/0230605036

World War I - NOW

Historian’s Corner

The Story of Helen Hagan - Yale News & Elizabeth Foxwell

https://news.yale.edu/2017/04/07/yale-goes-war-helen-hagan

https://music.yale.edu/2016/09/30/helen-hagans-grave-finally-marked-overdue-ceremony/

https://www.amazon.com/Their-Own-Words-Elizabeth-Foxwell/dp/0985910771/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=elizabeth+foxwell&qid=1554524445&s=gateway&sr=8-1

http://www.elizabethfoxwell.com/

Articles and Posts

Highlight from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host

http://ww1cc.org/dispatch  

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Starr Foundation

The General Motors Foundation

Walmart

 

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katalin Laszlo

Written by: Theo Mayer

Special segment host:

Mike Shuster

Dr. Edward Lengel

Researcher and writing support:

Dave Kramer

JL Michaud