One hundred years ago, the world went to war. Wisconsin in the First World War explores how Wisconsinites experienced the war, both at home and abroad.
The Hello Girls Of WWI: Heroes On The Front Lines
Way before cell phones, there were these things called telephones. And in the early days, a telephone call required a ...
Out Of The Trenches: Racine Veteran Reflects on WWI
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, millions of young men across the country lined up ...
Wisconsin In WWI: The End Of It
Wounded at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, John J. Haddock of Milwaukee spent two months in the hospital before he was ...
WWI – Hortence Troutman, Nurse
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...
Wisconsin In WWI: The Thick of It
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Charles Whittlesey’s Lost Battalion
A century ago Charles Whittlesey left his job as a lawyer in New York to to fight in World War ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Bill Rice’s Letter Home From Verdun
Bill Rice was just finishing his first year at Harvard Law School when he was accepted into the American Ambulance ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Poetry Of War
The Great War inspired famous war poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sasson, and Robert Graves. But many soldiers of ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Mingling With The French
In every war there’s a lot that happens behind the front lines. Sometimes it’s training or mission related but sometimes ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Goodbye America, Hello… Horses?
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Horses And Transportation
In early 1917, John Pavlik enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard. He was just 16 but he felt that American ...
WWI Veteran Recalls His Enlistment, Training, and Pranks
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories from Wisconsin ...
In Flanders Fields: WWI Veteran Recalls Poetry Of War
John Pavlik was born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, in 1901. He enlisted on April 3rd, 1917, at the age of ...
Food Will Win The War
When most people think of food rationing, they think of WWII. But Americans were first urged to conserve during the ...
A Chaplain on the Front Lines
Not everyone who went to war was a soldier or nurse. Chaplin Walter Beaudette (1884-1962) was a Roman Catholic chaplain with the ...