World War I Minnesota Matted Print adapted by Wayne Vansant

adapted by Wayne Vansant

Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy

Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first

000 casualties

the abandonment of the Imperial German Navy’s ambition for a decisive naval surface battle was at least as important as Jutland itself

World War I Minnesota Matted Print adapted by Wayne VansantDescription by Iric Nathanson Paperback When the United States made a formal declaration of war on April 6, 1917, Minnesotans answered the call to arms. Duluth, with its strategic location at the head of the Great Lakes, emerged as a major shipbuilding center. Over forty thousand men registered for the draft in Minneapolis alone. Yet many members of the state's large German American population struggled with divided loyalties. A xenophobic fervor