A Lasting Impact on American Society. This class is about an hour, 20 minutes. All right. So today were going to talk about america during the First World War. And ive called this lecture americans at war the myth busters edition. And i did that kind of intentionally. Because when we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that its really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpam them a little bit and think more about the reality of the experience, right . I want to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. So its not just america that has these myths, but even this sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with. And we think of the kind of general narrative that we attach to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. Right . Weve already talked about the uncertainty as
Exist and get to unpack them a little bit a little bit and learn about the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. Its not just america has these myths, but even the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with, and we think of the kind general narrative that we attached to it, one of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We already talked about why this war even occurred. But once its underway, it is sort of predominant image and we get that image a lot from popular culture, those are the kind of images i have up here for you, of the idea that this really was just meant and then sent needlessly to their death. I have an example, all quiet on the western front. You are gonna like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the novel. Youll recognize that image from something we discussed last class, and last class was with a german war bon
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