Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Those Terrible Huns!

Only one week until Dr. Celia Kingsbury, author of For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, discusses "'The Hun is at the Gate': The Power of World War I Propaganda" in Twomey Auditorium (Wood 100) March 12 at 7:00 pm.  We hope to see you there, and check back soon to see our fall line-up of events! 

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

World War I in the News

Here is an interesting story from NPR discussing a new book by Howard Blum titled Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America.  To learn more about the book, click on the link below.

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282439233/during-world-war-i-germany-unleashed-terrorist-cell-in-america

Image is from the NPR link.

Willy-Nicky Correspondence

During our first talk on the origins of the war, our panelists mentioned the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," a series of letters and telegrams between Wilhelm II of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia exchanged just prior to World War I.  The letters are available online through the Brigham Young University World War I Document Archive and provide additional insight into the politics of Europe on the brink of war.