WarJanuary 11, 2017<January 11, 2017 WWI Wednesday: Wheatless Wednesdays, Meatless Mondays, or the American Home Front at War by Evangeline Holland A few years ago, we discussed rationing in Britain during WWI. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, they had a…
MusicJanuary 22, 2012<January 22, 2012 Popular Songs of WWI by Evangeline Holland Music has always been an expression not only of emotion, but of popular culture, and the outbreak of WWI was no small inspiration for…
WomenJanuary 15, 2012<January 18, 2012 Downton Abbey: Nursing & Military Hospitals on the Home Front by Evangeline Holland Perhaps due to poetic license, or historical media hearsay (i.e. inaccuracies that become “fact” due to continuous repetition in TV, movies, and literature), the…