Highlights: Looking ahead at 1919!

Episode #105

Host: Theo Mayer

• 1919 Overview Roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Host | @02:00
• Wilson’s Great Challenge - Mike Shuster | @17:40
• First into Germany: SGT Roy Holtz - And he did it on a Harley - Host | @22:00
  (Courtesy of author Robert Laplander)
• A Century in the Making: The Winning Team - Joe Weishaar & Sabin Howard | @29:00
• “American Indians in WWI”: New Website - Erin Fehr | @39:30
• New showings of Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” - Host | @46:40
• WWI in education: Memorializing The Fallen - Host | @49:00

Wilson’s Great Challenge

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/12/24/the-great-questions-emerge-who-won-the-war/

Harley Davidson in WWI

http://www.ridingvintage.com/2012/12/war-machines-american-motorcycles-of-wwi.html

https://www.thrillist.com/cars/history-of-u-s-military-motorcycles

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/100-year-old-harley-davidson-returns-from-france-to-honor-american-wwi-vets

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-home.html

http://www.findingthelostbattalion.com/p/about-robert-j-laplander.html

“A Century in the Making” - National World War I Memorial in Washington D.C.

www.ww1cc.org/memorial

Remembering Veterans: New website

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/american-indians-in-ww1-centennial-home.html

Spotlight on the Media: New Fathom Events showing

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/they-shall-not-grow-old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74h-o8dFU8E

 

WWI in education: Memorializing The Fallen

https://www.nhd.org/memorializing-fallen

https://www.nhd.org//

 

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Starr Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Katherine Akey & Katalin Laszlo

Written by: Theo Mayer & Katherine Akey

Short story provided by

Robert Laplander

Special segment hosts:

Mike Shuster

Dr. Edward Lengel

Researchers:

JL Michaud

Dave Kramer