News : 2015
RMS Lusitania, George Grantham Bain Collection
Library of Congress
Theodore and Belle Naish
Posted on May 15, 2015
Although thousands of miles from the war zone, Missouri was touched by one of the greatest tragedies of World War I, the sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915. Among the 159 Americans on board, nine were Missourians. Six of them were among the 1,195 people who died in t… Continue Reading
The Lusitania being torpedoed on May 7, 1915.
Library of Congress.
World War I Artifacts and Memories: Sinking of the Lusitantia
Posted on May 8, 2015
May 7, 2015, marks 100 years since the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by German submarine U-20. A British passenger ship on its way from New York to Liverpool, England, the Lusitania was running a risk traveling through waters that were at the time declared a war zone by Germany. Click here to read P… Continue Reading
The birthplace of Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman World War I Symposium May 9th
Posted on May 1, 2015
Members of the “Missouri Over There” project staff from the Springfield-Greene County Library will be attending the Harry S. Truman World War I Symposium. This event will be held in Lamar, Missouri, the birthplace of President Harry S. Truman, next weekend on Saturday May 9th. This all day event wi… Continue Reading
Frank Mitchell in his naval uniform. n.d.
Missouri History Museum.
Wartime Sweethearts
Posted on April 24, 2015
In September 1917, plumber Frank Clinton Mitchell found himself at Camp Pike, an army training camp in Little Rock, Arkansas. Working a construction job in support of the war, he was not only separated from his native St. Louis, but also from his sweetheart, Edna Kessler. To learn more about Frank a… Continue Reading
Samuel Frank's Forty and Eight shirt.
Missouri History Museum.
WWI Artifacts and Memories: Forty and Eight
Posted on March 20, 2015
At the end of World War I in November 1918, U.S. military men and women began their return home. The shared experiences and bonds formed in military service gave rise to veterans’ organizations on a local and national scale. The Forty and Eight, was founded in 1920 by returning World War I veterans… Continue Reading