Tennessee Great War Commission

04/17/2024

02/29/2024

https://www.smithvillereview.com/latest/late-tennessee-tech-professor-offers-final-history-lesson/

with book on Tennessee and World War I

01/28/2024

Out now: Dr. Michael Birdwell's edited collection of articles on Tennessee’s Experience During the First World War. Order your copy today at:

https://utpress.org/title/tennessees-experience-during-the-first-world-war/

11/23/2019

As you plan your Thanksgiving menu, check out the 1917 Thanksgiving dinner menu from Camp Jackson, South Carolina. We want to know which soldiers chose fruit cake over chocolate layer cake.

08/17/2019

The Military Vehicle Preservation Association is sponsoring a reenactment of the 1919 military convoy that traveled across the Lincoln Highway, from the East Coast to the West Coast, to celebrate the victory in . The 2019 MVPA Transcontinental Convoy got on the road Aug. 10th in York, PA and ends Sept. 14th in San Francisco, CA.

Click here to read more about the convoy, and its arrival in Galion, OH on August 17: https://bit.ly/2HcxOpX

08/06/2019

08/01/2019

07/29/2019

Great work done by the staff at the Sergeant Alvin C. York State Historic Park!

By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER Special from The Bradford Era More than a century ago, a Pennsylvania National Guardsman from the Kane area was presumably killed

07/14/2019

The trip from Washington D.C. to San Francisco, was considered a major accomplishment

05/10/2019

This American Red Cross hat and cotton smock (1917-1919) belonged to Maggie Sinclair Craig of Franklin, Tennessee. She wore this uniform during her service in the Davidson County American Red Cross Canteen during World War I. Women in these canteen groups distributed food and refreshments to allied soldiers, both at home and abroad, and were positioned along railway junctions as well as near the front lines. During World War I, more than 55,000 women volunteered with the canteens, with a total of over eight million women serving in various roles with the American Red Cross.

Craig was a small woman of five feet tall. She grew up in Franklin, born there on January 1, 1870. She was a very active gardener, and was a member of the Garden Study Club. She acted as treasurer of that organization when they produced the book, "Homes and Gardens of Tennessee." Craig passed away on November 23, 1945. See her uniform on display now in our "Change and Challenge" exhibition.

05/05/2019

https://www.thedailytimes.com/community/in-remembrance-blount-s-world-war-i-veterans-topic-of/article_a35772b8-bad1-55fe-be29-213e2d2a41a4.html

The Blount County Genealogical and Historical Society will honor World War I soldiers with ties to Blount County at a program in conjunction with its annual picnic May 11 at

05/01/2019

York's son Andrew and grandson Gerald talked to us about the legacy of "Sergeant York."