Many myths and misconceptions attached to the war that it is really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then unpack and see the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by sort of talking about how this connects to the First World War all. Not as america but also the sense of how we entered the First World War to begin with. We think of the general narrative we have attached to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We have already talked about why this war even occurred, but once it is underway, there is this imagef predominant , those are the images i have up there for you. The idea that this was men sent needlessly to their death. I have two examples, all quiet on the western front. You are going to like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the novel. You will recognize that image from something we discussed last class. Last class was a german war bonds poster, and that sol
20 minutes. Dr. Keene all right, so today we are going to talk about america during the First World War. I called this lecture americans at war, the myth busters addition. I did that kind of intentionally because we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions attached to the war that it is really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then unpack and see the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by sort of talking about how this connects to the First World War all. Not as america but also the sense of how we entered the First World War to begin with. We think of the general narrative we have attached to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We have already talked about why this war even occurred, but once it is underway, there is this sort of predominant image , those are the images i have up there for you. The idea that this was men sent needle