Category: World War I
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Europe
On the eve of Word War I, the European portion of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show quickly found their operation shuddered. Animals were confiscated for…
100 Year-old Letters with a Tie to Today
Jonathan Casey reads a lot of letters. Most of the letters are over a century old, but they are very interesting reading yet today and…
The Struggle Against the Spanish Flu
Over a century ago the world was struggling against what we call the Spanish flu. However, the disease probably didn’t begin there. In fact, it…
A Pandemic from Over 100 Years Ago
We are still traveling the countryside…although today’s interview was done by phone, a necessity of our current times. We look back at another pandemic that…
Honoring the Prince of Peace with Peace
For parts of five years, opposing soldiers dug into trenches all across Europe. World War I would claim the lives on nearly one million military…
Christmas in World War I
Christmas is not only a time for remembering the birth of Jesus, but it’s also a time when many of us get together with family…
Fighting in the Trenches
1914 marked the beginning of a war unlike anything the world had ever seen. Soon thousands of troops had amassed on the front lines across…
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I. We may have learned the war began when…
The Beginning of World War I
Some say the event that began the first World War occurred on June 28, 1914…a century ago. Today we take a look back and what…
100 Years Since The World’s First Global Conflict
This week marks 100 years since the world faced its first global conflict. It was a war that would engulf countries on multiple continents. Yet,…