Conflict including the participation in the workforce and the use and media. The National World War One Museum and memorial in Kansas City Missouri host of this event. This evening we are really thrilled to have doctor lynn with us, then thank you for making the journey she will have a conversation with us to make a presentation for about 45 minutes after where theyll be acumen a time. There are microphones on each side camille will help navigate just let her know and we can accommodate that afterwards theres a book signing, in the lobby and sean is theyre able to take your credit card and lynn is ready to sign it its not too early to be making christmas gifts. So get all that sopping well done well before doctor dumenil is the robert glass cleveland professor of american history, america. At oxidant college shes authored a number of distinguished institutions, including berkeley, Richmond College she special u. S. Womens history since the civil war. Shes a distinguished professor havi
And hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship that lasted after their presidencies. This was a period of incredible trauma for the United States with the great depression. Of course, the two of them had known each other for quite some during world war one, Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Tom, do you mind talking about what hoover did during world war i . Sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. The Food Administration had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe. Hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . And he did this by appealing to american housewives, to sign lunch cards, where they would hooverize. To hooverize, that meant you gave up a certain essential component. Meet, wheat, sugar, fats. So you had meatless mondays, meatless wednesdays. Hoover was able to use that as a stopgap before the farmers could increase the