Special Edition
Making Peace: Harder than Making War? 

Host - Theo Mayer

This special edition is dedicated to exploring the Paris Peace Negotiations and the resulting Treaty of Versailles. For our exploration, we are joined by an extraordinary panel of guests including:

• Military Historian, Sir Hew Strachan
• Professor of International History, Margaret MacMillan
• Woodrow Wilson Biographer, Professor Patricia O’Toole
• American History Author, Garrett Peck
• Citizen Historian and Artist, Katherine Akey
• Former NPR Correspondent and WWI blogger, Mike Shuster

Highlights: Stars & Stripes

Episode #127

Host - Theo Mayer

• Aftermath of WWI Perspective - Host | @ 02:25
• Stars And Stripes Last WWI Issue - Host | @ 04:15
• Insights into Stripes - Robert H. Rheid | @ 06:45
• Preserving the Stripes’ Legacy - Laura Meyer & Sue Mayo | @ 10:05
• Germany in Shock at Peace Treaty - Mike Shuster | @ 13:55
• War Memoirs From WWI: “John Lucy” - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 18:15
• WWI Genealogy Research Guide Update - Host | @ 23:50
• American POWs in WWI - Col Greg Eanes, (USAF ret.) | @ 25:30
• Mobile WWI Museum Update - Keith Colley | @ 32:20
• Dispatch Highlights - Host | @ 40:15

Highlights: Teaching & Learning WWI

Episode #126

Host - Theo Mayer

• Lafayette, Here We Go Again - Host | @ 02:15
• Killing the Angel of Peace - Mike Shuster | @ 07:15
• War Memoirs From WWI: “Siegfried Sassoon”  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 11:30
• Updates From The States: Hawaii - Col. Arthur Tulak (ret.) | @ 17:20
• Education in 1919 - Host | @ 25:15
• WWI Educator’s Tool Kits - Dr. Jennifer Zoebelein | @ 28:15
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Ron Nash | @ 36:25

Highlights: The Centennial of Suffrage

Episode #125

Host - Theo Mayer

• Making Peace: Who Will Save Armenia? - Mike Shuster | @ 03:00
• War Memoirs From WWI: “Ernst Jünger”  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 07:10
• 100 Years Ago: Women’s Suffrage, The Cliff Notes - Host | @ 11:50
• Raising Money for the Memorial - Phil Mazzara | @ 19:40
• Introducing the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission - Rebecca Kleefish | @ 28:40
• Articles & Posts: Highlights from Dispatch - Host | @ 37:45

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

Highlights:

Episode #123

Host - Theo Mayer

• Germany Agrees to Sign Peace Treaty - Mike Shuster | @ 02:15
• 100 Years Ago: The Treaty and the League as Viewed in America - Host | @ 06:50
• War Memoirs From WWI: “Will Bird”  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 13:10
• Back Over There: Italian Immigrants Serving in WWI - Luca Angeli | @ 18:50
• Fleet Week New York 2019: The Site, the Events and the Social Media - Host | @ 27:15
• Living Historians from the Cutter Olympia - Laura Adie & Kevin Smith | @ 28:10
• “The Hello Girls Musical” Releases Cast Album - Cara Reichel, Peter Mills & Ben Moss | @ 37:15
• Articles & Posts: Highlights from Dispatch - Host | @ 46:50

Highlights: US Navy NC-4, first to fly Atlantic

Episode #122

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 years Ago: US Navy NC-4, first to fly Atlantic - Host | 02:06
• Ultimatum to Germany: Sign or face renewed war - Mike Shuster | 16:35
• War Memoirs from WWI: “Hervey Allen”  - Dr. Edward Lengel | 29:35
• FREE WWI Genealogy Research Guide - Host | 26:00
• Fleet Week New York 2019 - “Corky” Erie and Beth Baker | 27:25
• Articles & Posts: Highlights from Dispatch - Host | 39:30

Highlights: A Battleship in Union Square

Episode #121

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:00
• Threat of Reimposed Blockade on Germany - Mike Shuster | @ 14:35
• War Memoirs from WWI: ‘Jack’ Idriess  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 18:35
• Remembering Veterans: USS Recruit - Tom Frezza | @ 24:40
• Events: AKC Museum of the Dog - Emily Brostek | @ 30:10
• Education: “Who They Were” Project from Nashua, IA - Suzan Turner w/ Drew, Abby, Tyler, Jayne and Lucas | @ 35:25
• Articles & Posts: Highlights from Dispatch - Host | @ 44:15

Highlights: Valor Medal Review Legislation

Episode #120

Host - Theo Mayer

• April 1919 Popular Science Magazine - Host | @ 01:55
• Reactions to Versailles Peace Treaty - Mike Shuster | @ 12:05
• A Century in the Making: Memorial Update - Joe Weishaar | @ 17:05
• WWI Valor Medals Review Legislation - Dr. Tim Westcott / Zach Austin | @ 25:45
• Legless, Wingless Animals Serving in WWI - Leah Tams | @ 36:00
• Dispatch Newsletter Highlight - Host | @ 41:55

Highlights: The Sinking of the USS San Diego

Episode #119

Host - Theo Mayer

100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:25

Germany Receives the Allied Dictates - Mike Shuster | @ 10:55

The Polar Bear Expedition - James Carl Nelson | @ 14:45

War Memoirs from WWI: Charles Carrington  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 22:10

May 2, 2019 Memorial at Cypress Hills Nat. Cemetery - Alain Dupuis | @ 27:55

The Sinking of the USS San Diego - Dr. Alexis Catsambis | @ 32:30

Minnesotan Doughboys Remembered - Susi Adler | @ 41:25

New Education Newsletter - Host | @ 49:55

Highlights from the Dispatch - Host | @ 51:10

Highlights: American Music in WWI

Episode #118

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:10
• Peace Treaty Draft Goes To Print - Mike Shuster | @ 09:05
• George Creel: Selling The War, Part 2 - Alan Axelrod | @ 12:55
• War Memoirs from WWI: Florence Farmborough  - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 24:20
• “Hello Girls” Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 - Senator Jon Tester  | @ 30:00
• New Website: American Music in WWI - Joshua Villanueva | @ 36:05
• Featured from the Dispatch - Host | @ 44:55

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

Highlights: Frank Buckles, The Last Doughboy!

Episode #116

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:15
• Colonial Self Determination? - Mike Shuster | @ 11:35
• Revisit Wilson’s 14 points - Host | @ 15:50
• Doris Kellogg, Mechanic, Nurse, & more - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 20:10
• Congressional Gold Medal for Hello Girls? - Host | @ 26:00
• Valor Medal Review Task Force - Dr. Westcott & Ashlyn Weber | @ 27:40
• Frank Buckles stimulates legacy - Ken Buckles | @ 33:45
• Big Prize - TransAtlantic Flight - Host | @ 40:50
• Dispatch highlights - Host | @ 44:00

Congressional Medals & Donuts

Episode #115

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:10
• Mandates? Colonies by Another Name - Mike Shuster | @ 11:05
• Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan | @ 15:00
• Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 21:20
• Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin | @ 27:00
• Congressional Gold Medal for the Hello Girls - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs | @ 33:00
• National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host | @ 41:20
• Dispatch Newsletter Highlights - Host | @ 43:55

Highlights: The Great War / Great Depression Connection

Episode #114

Host - Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:00
• Imperialism at the Peace Conference - Mike Shuster | @ 10:55
• The Great War and the Great Depression Connection - Prof. Maury Klein | @ 15:15
• A Pioneering American Woman Doctor in WWI - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 22:30
• No Seat at the Table: Ireland - Host | @ 26:55
• “Official Bulletin” Back Online - Host | @ 30:05
• Cantata: And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair - Alejandro Valdez & Joseph Turrin | @ 32:55
• Winner: 2019 Canine Hero of the Year - Host | @ 41:15
• Speaking WWI: Dog Fight | @ 42:35

Highlights - Women's Diverse Roles

Episode #113

Host: Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @02:15
• Getting to a League Of Nations Draft - Mike Shuster | @10:35
• Being Hospitalized in France - Dr. Edward Lengel | @14:30
• “Digital Technology and the Sculptor’s Art” Part 2 - Host | @20:50
• Courtesy of the author: Traci Slatton
• K9 Veterans Day and Our Poll | @35:15
• Women’s Diverse Roles in WWI - Elizabeth Foxwell | @37:15
• Hello Girls Documentary Update - Jim Theres | @45:05

Highlights - The Sculptor’s Art

Episode #112

Host: Theo Mayer

• 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @02:10
• Mission to Moscow - Mike Shuster | @09:35
• A “Y” girl sets up a library - Dr. Edward Lengel | @13:20
• Announcing WWI Themed “Fleet Week” in NYC - Host | @20:20
• “Digital Technology and the Sculptor’s Art” Part 1 - Host | @21:10
  Courtesy of the author: Traci Slatton
• Historians Corner: Women’s Suffrage in the UK - Dr. Patricia Fara | @27:35
• Remembering Veterans: Choctaw Code talkers in WWI - Sarah Sawyer | @34:55
• Speaking WWI: Scrounge - Host | @42:50
• Dispatch Newsletter Highlights - Host | @44:50

Highlights

Episode #111

Host: Theo Mayer

• In The Headlines This Week - Host | @02:10
• War Caused Famine Spreads - Mike Shuster | @07:50
• “Y” Girls Serving in War-Torn France - Dr. Edward Lengel | @12:05
• 100 Years in The Making - Pangolin Editions Foundry - Steve Maury | @18:40
• Remembering Veterans - 369th Experience Band Concert - From Video | @25:55
• Historians Corner - African American Nurses - Dr. Charissa Threat | @36:20
• Speaking WWI - Barnstorming - Host | @44:10
• Highlights from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host | @49:00

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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

Highlights: Fort Des Moines, Iowa

Episode #109

Host: Theo Mayer

• From a Civil War, to a World War and Beyond - Host | @02:20
  With Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun & Dan Dayton
• Wilson’s Push for a League of Nations - Mike Shuster | @10:35
• First into Germany: Sgt. Roy Holtz Part 5 - Host | @14:40
  (Courtesy of Robert Laplander)
• The Neglected Disabled Doughboys - Dr. Edward Lengel | @23:10
• A Century in the Making: Interpretive Elements - Dr. Libby O’Connell | @30:20
• Remembering Veterans: Fort Des Moines, IA - Dr. Hal Chase | @35:50
• Education e-Newsletter - Liesl Christman Agan | @43:20
• Articles & Posts: Dispatch Highlights - Host | @47:15