The National Society is cooperating with the Doughboy Foundation and Hungarian Ambassador Szabolcs Takacs to host a unique, invitation-only photography exhibit focused on the 105th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I, as well as a discussion about the lessons learned during the conflict and how they apply to what is now occurring in Ukraine. The forum will be live-streamed and available for replay on my DAR President General Facebook page, as our National Society’s final commemoration of the World War I Centennial.
"In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War” is the new two-volume book on which the exhibit is based. Focused on the centennial observances of the events of World War I, its first volume contains 410 pages and more than 700 photographs that take readers to the events that unfolded from Sarajevo to Versailles in 57 countries on five continents a century ago. All the pictures were taken between 2014 and 2021, most of them on the exact day of their centennials. (Volume II, due to be published before Christmas, will contain the full story of the American Expeditionary Force led by General Pershing that went to Europe during the last year of the conflict.) I have seen the first book, and it is impressive in scope and substance. The images are exceptional and reveal a full-color impact of the re-enacted events that makes them come to life in a unique and haunting way. Copies may be purchased here.