Connecticut in World War 1

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Comics were a part of the daily life of Connecticut’s men who served in the Great War. Doughboys anticipated the arrival of American military papers not only for the news they delivered regarding the home-front and various military happenings, but also for the beloved comic strips they contained. American soldiers relished cartoons as a form of escape from the devastation […]

Friday Find: The Funnies

in Friday Find tagged Abian Wallgren / comics / Yale University

July 13, 1913 We are in a village about two miles from Pau, with a lovely walk through the tall woods thither, and have been well taken care of by an ancien[t] professor and his wife. The first of August, we move into a new little apartment of our own, […]

James Robinson Smith: Scholar, Father, Soldier

in Connecticut Stories / Friday Find / Profiles tagged James Robinson Smith / Red Cross / Yale University

Terence Holmes, Robert T. Foley, Gerhard Groβ, and Annika Mombauer have all argued forcefully against the Zuber thesis, the first two in the pages of War in History. I am only going to talk about Holmes’s and Mombauer’s criticisms. The crux of Holmes’s argument is that Zuber has too rigid […]

The Schlieffen Plan, part 3

in Guest Posts / History tagged Schlieffen Plan