Articles from 1919
Vanity Fair correspondent L.L. Jones cracked open a copy of The American Language by H.L. Mencken:
At last a man has arrived who knows something about English prose style under American conditions…
The rest of his thoughts can be read in the attached review.
‘The Hope of American English” Read More »
Dial editor Robert Morss Lovett compared and contrasted two very different First World War memoirs in this article: America in France, by Frederick Palmer (1873 – 1958) and Floyd Gibbons’ (1887 – 1939) And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight.
A Review of Two W.W. I Books (The Dial Magazine, 1919) Read More »
Here is a reminiscence of the grand parade following the close of America’s bloody Civil War. It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman’s Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.
From Amazon: Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue (Literary Digest, 1919) Read More »
Here is a very simple list of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points can be printed off of a PDF by clicking the title above.
Wilson’s Fourteen Points were ignored at Versailles and the United States withdrew it’s support for the historical conference in favor of two separate peace agreements made with Germany and Austria at a later date.
Click here to read more magazine articles about President Woodrow Wilson.
Read a 1936 article concerning Hitler’s Versailles Treaty violations.
The historian Henry Steele Commager ranked Woodrow Wilson at number 18 insofar as his impact on the American mind is concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…
Wilson’s Fourteen Points (Literary Digest, 1919) Read More »
Senegalese, Moroccans, Algerians, Americans – this six page article summarizes the participation of the various Allied units that were composed entirely of Black men throughout the four year course of W.W. I.
‘Black devils‘ the German soldiers called them, when, fighting like demons, they had forced the Kaiser’s shock troops to retreat before them.
The Negro in the War’ (NY Times, 1919) Read More »
The essential facts are that women can do men’s heavy work with substantially equal output, without any disturbance of the particular industry, and, when guided by proper conditions, without detriment to their health. How far and how long they ought to do it in the emergency arising from the war is to be decided upon different grounds.
Click here to read about the women war workers of the Second World War.
Women Can Do The Heavy War Work (Scribner’s Magazine, 1919) Read More »
Sergeant Alvin York (1887 – 1964) of the 328th Infantry Regiment, Eighty-Second Division, was one of the great heroes of the First World War. The attached four page article recalled those deeds as well as his glorious trip to New York City where he was luxuriated at the Waldorf Astoria and feted by the swells of Gotham.
Sergeant York (Literary Digest, 1919) Read More »
In three short pages this article outlines the growth of the film industry beginning in 1909 to the time of this printing, in 1919.
In 1930 Adolf Zukor was listed as one of the most powerful men in Washington…
The Silent Movie Producers of 1919 (Vanity Fair, 1919) Read More »
The attached remembrance of sniping on the Western Front was written by Major H. Hesketh-Pritchard, D.S.O, M.C. (author of Sniping in France 1914-18) and recalls the development and changes of sharp-shooting on both sides during the war. Pritchard broke down the scouting and sniper involvement on the Western Front into four phases:
Phase I (1914 – 1915): German snipers weigh heavily on Allied soldiers (Clear German advantage)
Phase II (1915 – 1916): British sniping organized (Advantage even)
Phase III (1916 – 1918): British sniper program takes off (Slight British Advantage)
Phase IV (1918 through to the Armistice): Allied Offensive takes effect (Snipers began scouting)
Sharp-Shooting on the Western Front (Cornhill Magazine, 1919) Read More »
Here is a Crisis Magazine summary of the all the various lynchings that had been recorded in the United States between the years 1885 through 1918. Additional lists are provided that give an account of the participating states for the year 1918, the genders of the victims and the racial group to which they belonged.
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive.
Categorizing The Lynchings (The Crises, 1919) Read More »
