United States – Page 15 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 9, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘North Carolina & World War I’ – US Centennial exhibition in 2017

A multimedia exhibition marking the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War opens at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, in April next year.

October 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Vigils remember Virginia’s First World War soldiers.

Vigils were held in Virginia on 17 September 2016 in memory of the US state’s soldiers who served in the Great War.

October 4, 2016 CN Editorial Team

US Centennial Commission signs partnership deal with Belgium

America’s WWI Centennial Commission and the Belgian Federal Government have signed an agreement to ‘share experience, knowledge and technical means’ ahead of commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of US entry into the First World War.

October 10, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Book Review – An American on the Western Front

‘A story both illuminating and intensely moving’ – CN reviewer Andy Moreton on this collection of the First World War letters of Californian student Clifford Kimber, edited and narrated by Patrick Gregory & Elizabeth Nurser.

Publication Date: 07 Jul 2016

Author: Patrick Gregory & Elizabeth Nurser

October 23, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Mission Centenaire seeks WW1 Centenary projects for 2017

French Centenary organisation Mission Centenaire has outlined major anniversary themes for 2017 as it invites next year’s WW1 projects to apply for endorsement.

November 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘World War I and American Art’ – Centennial exhibition launching in Philadelphia

The first major exhibition devoted to exploring how American artists reacted to the First World War opens this week at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia.

November 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November 7 1916 – Americans go to the polls in close Presidential race

President Woodrow Wilson narrowly won a second term in November 1916 on a platform of 'He Kept Us out of War', reflects Patrick Gregory.

November 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November 7 1916 – Americans go to the polls in close Presidential race

President Woodrow Wilson narrowly won a second term in November 1916 on a platform of ‘He Kept Us out of War’, reflects Patrick Gregory.

Author: Patrick Gregory

November 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Oxford seminars to explore ‘how we can best commemorate war’

Leading figures from the arts and politics will discuss post-war commemoration and reconciliation at a series of seminars in 2017-18, Oxford University announces.

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.