WW1 Centennial News

Congressional Medals & Donuts: Ep. #115



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----more----
  • World War I - THEN
    100 Years Ago This Week
    Third Week of March, 1919 - Host

    https://timesmachine.nytimes.com

    The Great War Project
    Mandates? Colonies by Another Name- Mike Schuster

    http://greatwarproject.org/2019/03/17/mandates-colonies-by-another-name/

    Remembering Veterans
    Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan

    http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1154

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/donut-girls-wwi-helped-fill-soldiers-bellies-and-get-women-vote-180962864/

    Stories of Service
    Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel

    http://www.edwardlengel.com/from-womans-suffrage-leader-to-government-agent-in-world-war-i/

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

    http://bit.ly/2tILSQI

    World War I - NOW
    Commission News
    Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin

    http://ww1cc.org/valor

    Remembering Veterans
    “Hello Girls” Congressional Gold Medal - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/04/these-women-were-denied-veteran-status-decades-congress-cant-overlook-them-again/?utm_term=.503bff7d7b82
    https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Girls-Americas-First-Soldiers/dp/0674971477

    http://elizabethcobbs.com/the-hello-girls/

    https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition

    https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition

    https://the1a.org/shows/2017-07-12/americas-first-women-soldiers-had-to-fight-for-recognition-as-veterans

    National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host

    https://history.army.mil/moh/worldwari.html

    https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-88000/NH-88004.html

    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 Diana Davis Spencer Foundation

    The Richard Lounsbery Foundation

    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:

    JL Michaud

    Dave Kramer

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