Trauma. St stagners presentation will highlight how in 1916 the public began to understand the devastating complications of shell shock epidemic. She will address how various attempts were made to replicate the damage it rocked on countless soldiers and others involved in the war. On this anniversary, 1916 stag ners presentation is a talk that is both timely and ir refutably relevant to our world today. It is my pleasure to introduce annessa stag ner. [ applause ] as we have already heard this morning the First World War marked if more the modern industrial war. As we have heard, total war. With it came construction on a massive scale. Mines killed hundreds in single explosions. Gas seemingly melted lungs and eyes. Machine guns signals slaughter for those ordered to charge. 1916 marked a turning point in which nations and militaries were forced to confront the destruction the war was causing on human minds. I would like to explain how they attempted to mitigate the wars damage. I would
Hundreds of photos of artwork created during world war i. Next on american artifacts we look at drawings by eight combat artists with archives Valentine Jan hodges. She has showcased the art and the stories of the artists on the archives blog, the unwritten record. When i first came to the archives i had no idea what the archives was about. So when i came here as a volunteer i was asked if i wanted to work on a conservation project for record group 120, which is the records of the combat units of the American Expeditionary forces. Since i had no frame of reference i said yes. So that got me into looking at these records that first of all i was astonished to understand that i was handling records that go back to world war i. And so that alone was very interesting and entertaining. But as we went along, one of the things that i found out in looking through the records was that the records start at the Division Level and work down to brigade level and then regiment level. And in the regim
Trauma. St stagners presentation will highlight how in 1916 the public began to understand the devastating complications of shell shock epidemic. She will address how various attempts were made to replicate the damage it rocked on countless soldiers and others involved in the war. On this anniversary, 1916 stag ners presentation is a talk that is both timely and ir refutably relevant to our world today. It is my pleasure to introduce annessa stag ner. [ applause ] as we have already heard this morning the First World War marked if more the modern industrial war. As we have heard, total war. With it came construction on a massive scale. Mines killed hundreds in single explosions. Gas seemingly melted lungs and eyes. Machine guns signals slaughter for those ordered to charge. 1916 marked a turning point in which nations and militaries were forced to confront the destruction the war was causing on human minds. I would like to explain how they attempted to mitigate the wars damage. I would
Hundreds of photos of artwork created during world war i. Next on american artifacts we look at drawings by eight combat artists with archives Valentine Jan hodges. She has showcased the art and the stories of the artists on the archives blog, the unwritten record. When i first came to the archives i had no idea what the archives was about. So when i came here as a volunteer i was asked if i wanted to work on a conservation project for record group 120, which is the records of the combat units of the American Expeditionary forces. Since i had no frame of reference i said yes. So that got me into looking at these records that first of all i was astonished to understand that i was handling records that go back to world war i. And so that alone was very interesting and entertaining. But as we went along, one of the things that i found out in looking through the records was that the records start at the Division Level and work down to brigade level and then regiment level. And in the regim
Trauma. St stagners presentation will highlight how in 1916 the public began to understand the devastating complications of shell shock epidemic. She will address how various attempts were made to replicate the damage it rocked on countless soldiers and others involved in the war. On this anniversary, 1916 stag ners presentation is a talk that is both timely and ir refutably relevant to our world today. It is my pleasure to introduce annessa stag ner. [ applause ] as we have already heard this morning the First World War marked if more the modern industrial war. As we have heard, total war. With it came construction on a massive scale. Mines killed hundreds in single explosions. Gas seemingly melted lungs and eyes. Machine guns signals slaughter for those ordered to charge. 1916 marked a turning point in which nations and militaries were forced to confront the destruction the war was causing on human minds. I would like to explain how they attempted to mitigate the wars damage. I would