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First World War

March 4, 2014, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events

World War I-era Russian propaganda posters portray food as evil

Wilhelm's Menu. A four-panel cartoon depicting the Kaiser being defeated at breakfast, lunch, and dinner before being forced to sit in defeat.

Food was in high demand during the First World War, especially in Russia. The food shortages were so constant that they were ultimately one of the factors that helped to incite the revolutions of 1917. Although seemingly minor compared to the famine Eastern Europe would later experience under Stalin, food… read more 

November 20, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events

Ransom Center partners with Texas Exes on World War I-themed anniversary tour

2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, a watershed event that claimed millions of lives and changed the course of the twentieth century.  The Ransom Center’s exhibit The World at War, 1914–1918 will illuminate the lived experience of the world’s first global war,… read more 

August 2, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching

Postcards from France: Paul Fussell and the Field Service “Form-letter”

A standard British Army Field Service Postcard sent from Wilfred Owen to his mother, Susan Owen, on April 5, 1917.

May 23, 2012, marked the passing of literary scholar and public intellectual Paul Fussell, whose monumental 1975 study of World War I, The Great War and Modern Memory, brought widespread attention to how the experience of trench warfare helped foster a modern, ironic sensibility that still influences art and culture… read more 

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