Essay: Presents from a princess – the mission to deliver 2.6 million Christmas gifts to soldiers and sailors on the 1914 frontline
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER DOYLE, a professor at London South Bank University, looks at the history of a massive effort to get so-called “Princess Mary tins” to those fighting during World War I…
Essay: The meaning of Tulsa
CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Colby College, writes about why the US must remember and address unresolved injustices like the race massacre which destroyed the Greenwood community in 1921…
Unknown Soldier’s precarious journey home to the US included chaplain’s prayer
RNS A century ago, a captain on a storm-tossed Navy ship turned to an onboard chaplain for his specialty: prayer. The USS Olympia, on which they were traveling across the Atlantic, carried not only sailors and Marines but a special cargo. On the weather deck, the top level of the steel warship, was the casket […]
Essay: Anzac Day, a time to reflect on the cost of war for all Australians
As Australia and New Zealand marked Anzac Day on 25th April, HAL BISSET reflects on the meaning of the commemoration – in particular, what it means with regard to Indigenous Australians…
In historic move, Biden says 1915 massacres of Armenians constitute genocide
Washington DC, USReuters US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies. The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, was […]
“Pervasive racism” meant UK’s Black and Asian troops not commemorated: report
London, UKReuters As many as 350,000 Black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for Britain might not have been properly commemorated because of “pervasive racism”, a report concluded on Thursday. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission issued an apology after an inquiry it commissioned found hundreds of thousands of mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘1917’ AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THE HORRORS OF “THE GREAT WAR”
DAVID ADAMS watches Golden Globe winner ‘1917’…
Lengthy takes and mile-long trenches: the making of Mendes’ war drama ‘1917’
London, UKReuters Presenting his World War I battlefield movie 1917 as a single shot had pros and cons for Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes. Mistakes meant lengthy retakes but “accidents” also gave an authenticity of life in the trenches. From start to finish, fluid camera work follows two young British soldiers tasked with crossing enemy lines […]
ESSAY: 100 YEARS LATER, WHY DON’T WE COMMEMORATE THE VICTIMS AND HEROES OF THE SPANISH FLU?
In an article first published on The Conversation, the University of Sydney’s PETER HOBBINS says it’s time we commemorated how the Australian community came together to fight the Spanish flu…
US CATHOLICS: HOW THE ‘GREAT WAR’ WAS CONNECTED TO THE CREATION OF AMERICA’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
MICHAEL MCKINLEY, writing for Religion News Service, takes a look at the connections between World War I and the creation of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops…