NPR American Chronicles: World War I

Contents:

• Introduction by Rachel Martin
• Washington’s World War I Memorial
• Stumbling Into World War I, Like Sleepwalkers
• 1913 Leads a Tour of the World a Century Ago
• A Race Against Time to Find WWI’s Last Doughboys
• The Human Toll of the War To End All Wars
• National World War I Museum
• Frank Buckles: Last U.S. Veteran of World War I
• Belgian Exhibit Honors Hoover’s WWI Effort
• Christmas Truce
• Battle of the River Aisne
• WWI Poetry: The Words of War
• Ground War: Winston Rochet
• Last Post: Final Thoughts from Britain’s WWI Vets
• Diary Provides Black Soldier’s View of WWI
• Battle of the Somme
• France Pays Tribute to Early U.S. Fighter Pilots
• Thomas Sopwith, Plane Designer
• “Fast Eddie” Rickenbacker
• Robert K. Massie’s Castles of Steel
• Veterans Day Journey Ends Near WWI Trenches
• New Clues in Lusitania’s Sinking
• Germany’s Last WWI Debt
• Artists’ Masks Hid Wounds of WWI Soldiers
• WWI Munitions Still Live Beneath Western Front
• 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour
• The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond
• The Bonus Army: How a Protest Led to the GI Bill
• The Savage Peace of 1919, Relevant Today
• Pete Seeger on His Uncle, Alan Seeger