Summary: <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highlights</span></h1><br> <ul> <li>100 Years ago: About President Woodrow Wilson | @01:45</li> <br> <li>Special Guest: John Milton Cooper Jr. | @07:45</li> <br> <li>War in The Sky: Introducing General Billy Mitchell | @15:45</li> <br> <li>American Emerges: Baseball on the Polo Grounds - Dr. Edward Lengel | @16:40</li> <br> <li>European view of the war: Mike Shuster | @22:10</li> <br> <li>Special Commemorative Coin and Service Medallion Collector Sets | @27:05</li> <br> <li>A Century In The Making: Joe Weishaar | @28:25</li> <br> <li>Speaking WWI: Acronym flips RAMC and REPS | @34:25</li> <br> <li>Spotlight In The Media: Director Peter Jackson | @35:45</li> <br> <li>100C/100M: The City of Nitro, West Virginia - Rich Hively and Mayor Dave Casebolt | @38:50</li> <br> <li>WW1 War Tech: Tankgewehr - David O’Neal | @44:45</li> <br> <li>The Buzz: Social Media - Katherine Akey | @51:05</li> <br> <li> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a id="more-8734814"></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 #56 - 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 January 26th, 2018 and our guests for this week include:</span></p> <br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Milton Cooper Jr. giving deeper insight into President Woodrow Wilson</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Ed Lengel, with our new segment: America Emerges - Military stories from WWI</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog looking at growing discontent in Europe</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Weishaar in our “A century in the Making” - an Eagle Scout’s perspective</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich Hively and Mayor Dave Casebolt from the WW1 memorial restoration effort in Nitro, West Virginia</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">David O’Neal and the restoration of a WW1 anti-tank gun</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Katherine Akey, with some selections from the centennial of WWI in social media </span></li> <br> </ul> <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;">Preface</span></h2> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Woodrow Wilson - an academic and learned man, president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910 - a progressive Democrat seeking and winning the governorship of New Jersey - then running for and being elected to his first term as president of the United states in 1912 - two years before war broke out in Europe…</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His progressive agenda and accomplishments in his first term are near legendary. His personal life is equally dynamic, losing his first wife to illness in 1914, and barely more than a year later - re-marrying while still in office.</span></p> <br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By his second term campaign in 1916 - the war in Europe was in full swing, the Germans had sunk the Lus</span></p> </li> </ul>
