Episodes
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
The Haber-Bosch Process
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
Saturday Dec 05, 2020
By Brenden Zimmer
Describing the history and the chemistry behind the Haber-Bosch Process.
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
American Propoganda in WWI
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
By Gannon Foley and Jake Sherman
This week on the podcast, Gannon and Jake discuss different types of American WWI propaganda and the effects it had on the country.
“Can Vegetables, Fruit, and the Kaiser too.” Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.history.nd.gov/exhibits/gardening/images/popups/10935-P150-can-the-kaiser.jpg.
Collier, Barron G. “Times Are Hard Your Majesty—You Leave Us Nothing to Do.” 1918. Poster. World Digital Library. Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4527/.
Flagg, James Montgomery. “I Want You for US Army.” 1917. Poster. World Digital Library. Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.wdl.org/en/item/576/.
Karunaratne, Natasha. “The Anti-German Sentiment of WWI.” Re-Imagining Migration. Accessed October 11, 2020. https://reimaginingmigration.org/the-anti-german-sentiment-of-world-war-i/.
Siegel, Robert and Art Silverman. “During World War I, US Government Propaganda Erased German Culture.” NPR. April 7, 2017. Accessed October 11, 2020. https://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/523044253/during-world-war-i-u-s-government-propaganda-erased-german-culture.
Strothmann, Frederick. “Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds.” 1918. Poster. “The Anti-German Sentiment of World War I” by Natasha Karunaratne. Re-Imagining Migration. Accessed October 11, 2020. https://reimaginingmigration.org/the-anti-german-sentiment-of-world-war-i/.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Variety of Weapons in the War
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
By Sarah Walker
There were a wide variety of weapons used in WWI, some new and some old.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Lozenge Camouflage
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
By Bethany Kilcrease
I'm super excited to get my new German lozenge-pattern camouflage face mask and just start talking about camouflage on the fly. Sorry, no script!
This is a Fokker D.VII with lozenge camouflage. See "Lozenge camouflage," Wikipedia, accessed September, 21, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge_camouflage#:~:text=Lozenge%20camouflage%20was%20a%20military,of%20the%20Imperial%20German%20Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte.
Monday Nov 12, 2018
Christmas Truce 1914
Monday Nov 12, 2018
Monday Nov 12, 2018
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/
https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Christmas-Truce
Tuesday Nov 06, 2018
British War Propaganda
Tuesday Nov 06, 2018
Tuesday Nov 06, 2018
Sources
Welch, David. Depicting the enemy. British Library, 2014. https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/depicting-the-enemy.
Fox, Jo. Atrocity Propaganda. British Library, 2014. https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/atrocity-propaganda
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/britain/espionage.htm
The National Archives. Propaganda 1914-1918. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g6/background.htm
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Why the United States Entered WWI
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Sources
Chandler, Adam. (2017). The Leak That Helped Push America Into World War I. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/zimmermann-telegram/518217/.
Rubin, Richard. (2014). Why Don’t Americans Remember the War. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/08/why-dont-americans-remember-the-war/373469/.
Storey, William Kelleher. (2014). The First World War (2nd ed.) London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Sunday May 01, 2016
Sniping During the First World War
Sunday May 01, 2016
Sunday May 01, 2016
Sources
Dougan, Andy. Through the Crosshairs; A History of Snipers. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005.
Neiberg, Michael S.The World War I Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
Plaster, John L. The History of Sniping and Sharpshooting. Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 2008.
Pegler, Martin. Sniping in the Great War. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Military, 2008.
Pegler, Martin and Ramiro Bujiero. The Military Sniper Since 1914. Oxford, United Kingdom:Osprey Publishing, 2001.
German Sniper and Spotter, 1917, accessed May 2, 2016, http://www.ddoughty.com/snipers.html
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
Family Feud of World War One
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
Miranda Carter, "How George, Nicholas and Wilhelm were Related: A Royal Family Tree," from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, http://knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/post/CarterFamilyTree.gif
Friday Mar 18, 2016
Ersatz
Friday Mar 18, 2016
Friday Mar 18, 2016
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
When Was The Great War?
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Check out Oxford University Press's "The Greater War" series at https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/g/the-greater-war-tgw/?lang=en&cc=us.