Summary: <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highlights</span></h1><br> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feb. ‘18 overview - Ed Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer | @01:40</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">War In The Sky 1918 preview - RG Head | @11:20</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fighting in Russia - Mike Shuster | @18:20</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harlem’s Rattlers - Dr. Jeffrey Sammons | @22:40</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Century in the Making - The maquette arrives in DC | @30:00</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking WWI - Attaboy! | @35:40</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nurse Josephine Heffernan - Dr. Marjorie DesRosier | @37:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">100C/100M Beaverton Michigan - Ed Rachwitz & Scott Govitz | @43:25</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">WWI War Tech - Gas Masks | @47:55</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Articles & Posts - Dazzle Camo & S.S. Tuscania sinks | @49:45</span></li> <br> <li> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Buzz - WWI Social Media - Katherine Akey | @51:55<a id="more-8806997"></a></span><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening</span></h1> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #57 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is February 2nd, 2018 and our guests for this week include:</span></p> <br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Edward Lengel, in our February 1918 overview</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RG Head, with a full year look at the War in the Sky</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog looking at the chaotic situation in Russia</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Jeffrey Sammons speaking about the Harlem Rattlers and the African American soldiers’ experience in WWI</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Marjorie DesRosier telling us about nurse Josephine Heffernan </span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ed Rachwitz and Scott Govitz, from the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project in Beaverton, Michigan</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine Akey, with some selections from the centennial of WWI in social media </span></li> <br> </ul> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span></span><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All that and more --- this week -- on WW1 Centennial News -- which is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. </span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p> <br> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">NEW - Monthly Preview Roundtable</span></h2> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overview Chat with Ed, Katherine and Theo</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">THEO</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before we jump into our wayback machine and look at 100 years ago this week, we are going to try something new.</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You know we have editorial meetings twice a week where we define the content for each week’s show. For the history section - which is one of the most popular parts of the pod</span></p> </li> </ul>
