Dakota Datebook Stories: The Great War
Millions of Americans served in World War I — soldiers, sailors , nurses — and many at home provided support, suffered scarcities, and grieved for loved ones lost. The United States entered the Great War April 6, 1917. Prairie Public’s Dakota Datebook commemorated the 100th anniversary with stories from North Dakota, thanks to historian Jim Davis and other Dakota Datebook writers. Hear the stories here, or download a pdf to read the entire collection.
Latest Episodes
-
A Loyalty Week event was held in North Dakota during the first week of July in 1918. It was sponsored by the North Dakota Council of Defense and the North…
-
On April 26, 1917, only twenty days after the United States declared war on Germany, the newspaper headlines in the Tower City Topics, a Cass County…
-
E. H. Tostevin, the Mandan soldier and newspaperman, traveled throughout France attempting to record the war as seen through the eyes of North Dakota…
-
This is Dakota Datebook for June 15th; North Dakota remembers World War I.By the middle of June in 1918, American troops, now numbering at over eight…
-
June 5, 1918, was the first anniversary of the Selective Service Draft Act. Almost six million men across the nation between the ages of twenty-one and…
-
Today is Memorial Day, a day to honor those who paid the extreme sacrifice in the service of their country. In 1918, Memorial Day services across the…
-
On this date in 1918, the last quota of the selective service draft initiated in June the preceding year was being processed. Thirteen hundred men from…
-
On this date in 1918, the Great War was raging, and North Dakota boys were fighting in the front-line trenches. The first three years of the war had shown…
-
In the spring of 1918, with the war raging in France, another battle was playing out in the political landscape of North Dakota. In a few short years, the…
-
100 years ago, North Dakota boys were now in the thick of the fighting in France. A decision of the Department of War to publish casualty lists without…