Highlights: The Imperial Hubris of Mandates

Episode #124

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years ago: The Imperial Hubris of Mandates - Host | @ 01:55
• The Fate of The Ottoman Empire - Mike Shuster | @ 09:45
• War Memoirs From WWI: “Edmund Blunden”  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 13:55
• Commission News: Fleet Week Update - Host | @ 19:45
• Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence - Dr. Kate Clark-Lemay | @ 21:10
• Erie County WWI Remembrance -  Mary Jane Koenig | @ 28:40
• Articles & Posts: Highlights from Dispatch - Host | @ 34:35

World War I - THEN

100 Years Ago This Month

The Imperial Hubris of Mandates - Host

Written by Dave Kramer

“Does the Peace that Ended World War I Haunt Us Today?” BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zp3ncdm

“The Establishment of the Mandates System, 1919-1925,” Journal of Contemporary History, 7/79

https://www.jstor.org/stable/260018?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents

“The middle East and the West: World War I and Beyond,” NPR

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3860950

Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919, pp 381-426

New York Times, “Plan to Wipe Out Ottoman Empire,” March 3, 1919, p.3

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/03/96288293.html?pageNumber=3

New York Times, “Smyrna Taken from Turkey,” May 16, 1919, p. 5

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/05/17/118152468.html?pageNumber=5

History Today, “Greece and the First World War,” July 10, 2013

https://www.historytoday.com/greece-and-first-world-war

The Great War

The Fate of the Ottoman Empire  - Mike Shuster

http://greatwarproject.org/2019/05/19/the-fate-of-the-ottoman-empire/

Historians Corner

A Pastoralist at War: Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War - Dr. Edward Lengel

http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-pastoralist-at-war-edmund-blundens-undertones-of-war/

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

http://bit.ly/2tILSQI

World War I - NOW

Commission News

Fleet Week NYC Update - Host

www.ww1cc.org/fleetweek

https://twitter.com/WW1CC

https://www.facebook.com/pg/ww1centennial/posts/

Events: Exhibition

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence  - Dr. Kate Clark-Lemay

https://www.npg.si.edu/staff/kate-lemay

https://www.npg.si.edu/exhibition/votes-for-women

Remembering Veterans

Doughboys Memorial in Erie, Pennsylvania - Mary Jane Koenig

 

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/pennsylvania-ww1-related-locations/2333:donald-macdonald-plaque.html

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/39385654/erie-county-world-war-i-centennial-committee-working-on-new-memorial-plaque

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