Highlights - The League of Nations

Episode #110

Host: Theo Mayer

• Wilson Explains The League of Nations - Host | @02:10
• A Seat at the Table: Japan - Host | @14:55
• Turmoil at the Conference - Mike Shuster | @18:45
• Formation of the American Legion - David Rehbein | @23:25
• James Reese Europe - Jason Moran | @30:05
• Fort Des Moines & Black Medical Officer Training - Doug Fisher | @35:55
• Speaking WWI: GI - Host | @43:10
• Articles & Posts: The Dispatch - Host | @45:20

World War I - THEN

100 Years Ago This Week

Wilson Lays Out League of Nations - Host

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/15/issue.html

 

A Seat at the Table

Japan - Host

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/15/issue.html

-https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/japanese-relations

Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919 p. 316-321

The Great War

Turmoil at the Conference - Mike Schuster

http://greatwarproject.org/2019/02/10/an-assassins-bullet-fells-clemenseau/

 

World War I - NOW

 

Remembering Veterans

Formation of the American Legion Legion - David Rehbein

http://www.legion.org/centennial

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3038-world-war-i-veteran-american-legion-founder-remembered-in-reno.html

Historian’s Corner

Fort Des Moines & Black Medical Officer Training - Doug Fisher

https://www.amazon.com/African-American-Doctors-World-War/dp/1476663157

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-overlooked-story-of-104-african-american-doctors-who-fought-in-world-war-i/2017/09/22/ff2fda1e-9e0a-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html

Speaking WW

GI (Government Issue)  - Host

https://www.americanheritage.com/why-do-we-say-gi

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/more/310/

 

This Week in the Dispatch Newsletter - Host

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Starr Foundation

The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

United Technologies

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katalin Laszlo

Written by: Theo Mayer

Special segment host:

Mike Shuster

Researchers:

JL Michaud

Dave Kramer