Highlights: War Football & The NFL

Episode #138

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago: Woodrow Wilson’s last chapter - Host | @ 02:15
• A Century In The Making: From the Sabin Howard Sculpture Studio - Host | @ 12:15
  Remembering Veterans: Camp Doughboy “4” - Kevin Fitzpatrick | @ 13:45 
• Spotlight on the Media: “War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL” - Chris Serb | @ 22:30
• Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @ 34:50 

World War I - THEN

100 Years Ago

Woodrow Wilson’s last chapter - Host

Sources

Dorsey, Leroy G., “Woodrow Wilson’s Fight for the League of Nations: A Reexamination,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, pp. 107-135 Spring, 1999 (Vol. 2, No. 1) https://www.jstor.org/stable/41939493?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

 Glass, Andrew, “Wilson Collapses During Western Tour: Sept. 25, 1919,” Politico, September 25, 2017 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/this-day-in-politics-sept-25-1919-243039

 

Lynn, Kenneth S., “The Hidden Agony of Woodrow Wilson,” The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2004 http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/hidden-agony-woodrow-wilson

 

MacMillan, Margaret, Paris 1919, pp. 489-491

 

Markel, Howard, “”When a Secret President Ran the Country,” PBS Newshour, October 2, 2015 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/woodrow-wilson-stroke

 

“Wilson Embarks on Tour to Promote League of Nations, History Channel, July 28, 2019 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilson-embarks-on-tour-to-promote-league-of-nations

 

“President Wilson Suffers a Stroke,” Eyewitness to History http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wilsonstroke.htm

 

“Woodrow Wilson: Strokes and Denial,” University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, https://ahsl.arizona.edu/about/exhibits/presidents/wilson

World War I - NOW

A Century in The Making

From the Sabin Howard Sculpture Studio - Host

Remembering Veterans

Camp Doughboy #4 - Kevin Fitzpatrick

Links:

https://www.eastcoastdoughboys.com

https://eastcoastdoughboys.com/wwi-history-weekend-camp-doughboy-sept-14-15/

https://govisland.com/things-to-do/events/4th-annual-camp-doughboy-wwi-history-weekend

http://www.fitzpatrickauthor.com/tag/doughboy/

Commission News

Spotlight on the Media

“War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL” - Chris Serb

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/War-Football-World-Birth-NFL/dp/153812484X

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-serb-7324496/

Articles and Posts

Highlight from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host 

Link: http://ww1cc.org/dispatch

Sponsors:

The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

The Doughboy Foundation

Production:

Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

Editing:

Mac Nelsen
Tim Crowe

Website support: JL Michaud

Special guests:

Kevin Fitpatrick

Chris Serb