WW1 Centennial News: Episode #46 - Suffrage in WW1 | Passchendaele ends | Meet Joe Weishaar | “Snapshot” | Travels with Darley | 100C/100M Jackson, MO | Story of service | more..

Summary: <h1>Highlights</h1> <ul> <li>The Suffragists in WWI @ | 01:20</li> <li>The Battle of Passchendaele ends - Mike Shuster @ | 11:45</li> <li>Ceremonial Groundbreaking episode announced @ | 16:30</li> <li>Meet the designer of the National WWI Memorial - Joseph Weishaar @ | 17:30</li> <li>Speaking WWI - “Snapshot” @ | 24:45</li> <li>100C/100M in Jackson, MO - Lawson Burgfeld @ | 26:50</li> <li>“Travels with Darley” on the Western Front - Darley Newman @ | 33:25</li> <li>Native American Story of Service - Nick Brokeshoulder @ | 39:00</li> <li>The Buzz - Katherine Akey @ | 48:50</li> </ul>more...<a id="more-8146237"></a> <h1>Opening</h1> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - 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. Today is November 15th, 2017. Our guests this week include: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Weishaar, architect and designer of the National WW1 Memorial in DC </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Lawson Bergfeld from the 100 cities/100 memorials project in Jackson, Missouri</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Darley Newman, the host and producer of “Travels with Darley” on PBS</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Nick Brokeshoulder, veteran with a Stories of Service about his grandfather</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">And Katherine Akey the shows line producer and the commissions social media director...</li> </ul>WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show. [MUSIC] <h1>Preface</h1> Let's begin today’s show with a single word. Suffrage! What is that word? Is it about the process of suffering - well yea - but only in a manner of speaking, The actual etymology or the history of the word comes the latin term for voting or to VOTE. It's a little hard to remember that 100 years ago, during the war that changed the world, a large part of the American citizenry had no democratic sway or say in the governance of the country. For some reason, in a majority of states, it was thought that you needed testicles in order to cast a vote. The Suffrage movement - the movement for women's right to vote - was in high gear during this time and in 1916 during his presidential campaign, Woodrow Wilson promises that his democratic party will endorse women's suffra

WW1 Centennial News: Episode #46 - Suffrage in WW1 | Passchendaele ends | Meet Joe Weishaar | “Snapshot” | Travels with Darley | 100C/100M Jackson, MO | Story of service | more..

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