The first fifty years of Europe’s twentieth century were racked by violence, bloodshed and extraordinary political, economic, and socio-cultural changes. Between 1914 and 1918, an […]
Introduction: What Was Europe’s “Interwar Crisis”?
Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford, “Keep the Home Fires Burning” (1914)
Composed by Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford in 1914, “Keep the Home Fires Burning” was a popular WWI-era British patriotic song. The following is […]
Eugene Debs, “Canton Speech” (1918)
While American soldiers were off fighting a “bourgeois war” on the Continent, Eugene Debs—a railroad union leader and outspoken socialist politician—delivered an incendiary, anti-war speech […]
Original (Silent) Footage of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Signed between Germany and the Allied Powers on June 28, 1919 (exactly five years to the very day since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand […]