Tag: World War I

Guest post by Marian Moser Jones Why should Americans commemorate the centennial of World War I? Since visiting the Somme battlefields in France earlier this summer, I’ve been wrestling with this question. At the Thiepval memorial, located on the site of a village that was entirely flattened during this so-called “Great War,” I walked through…

Guest post by Janine Barchas This year, which marks the centennial of the start of the Great War, also marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mansfield Park, first advertised on May 9, 1814. This accident of history, which has my 2014 calendar oddly alternating between somber openings of WWI exhibits and upbeat celebrations…

Guest post by Janine Barchas This year, which marks the centennial of the start of the Great War, also marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mansfield Park, first advertised on May 9, 1814. This accident of history, which has my 2014 calendar oddly alternating between somber openings of WWI exhibits and upbeat celebrations…

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…