World War I

This is a rebroadcast of an earlier show (original air date May 26, 2020); no calls will be taken. We continue our celebration of Maine’s 200th statehood…

We continue our celebration of Maine’s 200th statehood anniversary by examining Maine from the time of the Civil War to the end of the Great War. This is…

Nov. 11, 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. That date was declared Armistice Day and, under President Eisenhower, the name of…

One hundred years ago, the Spanish flu pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide — about one-third of the planet’s population — and killed an…

The Centennial of World War I: April 6 marks the centennial of the United States' entry into The Great War. The parallels between then and now, in terms…