Roads to the Great War
US Declares War on Austria-Hungary 100 years ago.
100 Years Ago: Woodrow Wilson sets out his Fourteen Points
At noon on Tuesday 8 January 1918 Woodrow Wilson stood before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill. The US President was to make a speech outlining Fourteen Points: proposals which he hoped would act as a blueprint for the Allies in a post-War era, helping reshape a new peaceful and equitable world. Patrick [...]
The American
U.S. sculptor Sabin Howard tells how he is using an innovative 3D printing collaboration in his stunning wall of remembrance.
July 1917 – Building the US Air Service for action in WWI
When Woodrow Wilson signed legislation on 24 July 1917 earmarking $640 million for expenditure on US military aviation, it was the largest amount of money ever appropriated for a single purpose by Congress up to that time. But as Patrick Gregory explains the move marked a necessary effort to rebuild an air service, almost [...]
Times Literary Supplement
A ‘fitting tribute to [Kimber’s sacrifice].
General Pershing arrives – 13 June 1917
100 years ago today, General John Pershing arrived in France at the head of the first contingent of the American Expeditionary Force, the first official US troops to set foot in Europe. As CN’s Patrick Gregory reports, the small size of this initial WWI deployment belied the importance attached to its arrival by the Allies. General [...]
100 Years Ago: Americans register for Great War draft
In June 1917, millions of American men went to their local draft boards the length and breadth of the United States to register their names under the Selective Service Act – the first step in a conscription process aimed at bolstering America’s meagre armed forces for the war in Europe. It was the first [...]
BBC Five Live with Patrick Gregory
Listen to BBC’s Rhod Sharp in conversation with author Patrick Gregory, including extracts of Arthur Kimber Clifford’s own words.
BBC Online
Co-author Patrick Gregory writes for the BBC online website about the American entry to WWI.
History Hit podcast
Dan Snow, ‘History Guy’ and BBC History presenter hears how the story of US WW1 entry and involvement is presented through the eyes and pen of Arthur Clifford Kimber (Audio).