United States – Page 16 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Visitor numbers at US National World War I Museum hit another record

More than 300,000 people visited the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City in 2016, setting a new record for the third year in a row.

January 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Poppy seeds highlight WW1 Centennial on US Inauguration Day

US Centennial Commission volunteers handed out Flanders poppy seeds during the Presidential inauguration in Washington to raise awareness of America’s forthcoming Great War commemorations.

January 25, 2017 CN Editorial Team

US WWI Museum seeks your vote on historic Great War posters

Ahead of a new war poster exhibition, the National World War I Museum, Kansas City, is holding a global ballot to find the most popular choice with the public.

February 8, 2017 CN Editorial Team

US national ceremony to mark WWI Centennial – April 2017

America will commemorate the centenary of its entry into the First World War with a national ceremony on April 6, the US WWI Centennial Commission announces.

February 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Posters as Munitions, 1917’ – Centennial exhibition at US WW1 museum

A special exhibition illustrating the use of the poster as a propaganda weapon has opened at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

March 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Remembering World War I is essential’ – US Centennial Commissioner

The First World War was the ‘shaping event’ of the 20th century, and America should continue to learn from ‘this great tragedy’, says Dr Monique Brouillet Seefried, a US World War I Centennial Commissioner.

March 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog: ‘World War at US doorstep’, February 1917

The escalating diplomatic tension between Washington and Berlin after Germany's resumption of unrestricted U-boat warfare in February 1917 is discussed in this latest post from US blogger Dennis Cross.

March 21, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘1917 – How One Year Changed the World’: US Jewish history museum exhibition

A centennial exhibition exploring the dramatic events of 1917 that reshaped America’s role in the world has opened at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

March 22, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Congress and the World Wars’- Capitol Hill marks Centennial

America’s entry into WW1 in 1917 is being commemorated with an exhibition at the US Capitol Visitor Center, highlighting the response of Congress to both world wars.

April 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown Blog: US Cabinet backs war

The events of March 1917 which resulted in President Woodrow Wilson summoning a special session of Congress to declare war are told in this latest post from US blogger Dennis Cross.