by G. J. Meyer
Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg LC-B2-783-17
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign minister LC-H261-4395
Colonel Edward House LC-B2-3708-4
Robert Lansing, secretary of state LC-F81-2210
Woodrow Wilson in 1912 LC-USZ62-132907
William Jennings Bryan LC-B2-1218-3
Theodore Roosevelt LC-B2-3867-2
Mr. Bryan in oratorical full flower LC-USZ62-6272
Theodore Roosevelt in political combat LC-B2-2094-15
Former president William Howard Taft LC-USZ62-103207
Presidential secretary Joseph Tumulty LC-H25-24948-CD
German ambassador Johann von Bernstorff LC-B2-2006-7
Secretary of war Newton Baker LC-B2-4174-7
President Wilson and wife Edith LC-USZ62-62850
David Lloyd George, British prime minister LC-B2-5604-3
Charles Evans Hughes and wife LC-B2-3953-4
Paul von Hindenburg and Eric Ludendorff LC-B2-3683-11
Propaganda artist Louis Raemaekers LC-B2-4287-11
“Destroy This Mad Brute” poster LC-DIG-ds-03216
“Help Stop This” LC-USZC4-9928
“Kultur Has Passed Here” LC-USZC4-12176
“A Toast to Kultur” LC-USZC4-12178
German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann LC-B2-4069-10
Senator Robert La Follette LC-USZ62-106669
Western Front trench life LC-B2-4194-7
General Erich Ludendorff LC-B2-5240-7
Douglas Haig, Joseph Joffre, David Lloyd George LC-B2-4312-8
U.S. troops on the march LC-B2-4194-9
Female volunteer recruiters LC-B2-4194-9
Red Cross parade LC-B2-4355-18
Women drivers in uniform, saluting LC-B2-4473-13
Balfour of Britain with Secretary Lansing LC-B2-4190-14
Viviani and Joffre arriving in the U.S. LC-B2-4205-2
1917 draft registration LC-B2-4232-9
Army training cantonments, from top: LC-B2-4293-4,
LC-B2-3896-4,
LC-B2-4265-14
Food administrator Herbert Hoover LC-B2-4353-11
Rifle drill for new recruits LC-B2-3900-7
Dental inspection LC-B2-4164-17
Navy calisthenics LC-B2-4514-4
Drill at Harvard LC-B2-4172-5
J. P. Morgan buys Liberty bonds LC-B2-4551-13
John J. Pershing LC-H823-1534
Albert Sidney Burleson, postmaster general LC-B2-2508-6
U.S. attorney general Thomas Gregory LC-H261-7433
Republican statesman Elihu Root LC-B2-4471-10
“No War Talk” poster LC-USZC4-9013
“This Is Your War” LC-USZC4-9026
Germans in detention LC-B2-4402-9
Samuel Gompers of the AFL LC-H261-2179
Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs LC-H25-23644
The IWW’s William Haywood LC-B2-2658-9
Soldiers marching in New York LC-B2-4475-1
Troops waving from train LC-B2-4254-2
A soldier’s kiss concealed LC-B2-3899-12
Three decks of waving soldiers LC-B2-4266-1
Henri-Philippe Pétain LC-B2-4239-10
Sir Douglas Haig, BEF commander LC-USZ62-103116
Troops of U.S. machine-gun company LC-B2-4404-1
Yanks marching in France LC-B2-4469-2
Unloading railcars in France LC-B2-4437-5
Troops outside camouflaged shed LC-B2-4589-12
Yanks play baseball in France LC-B2-4419-5
Yanks assembled with rifles stacked LC-B2-4258-4
Learning to live in trenches LC-B2-4405-5
Digging a zigzag trench LC-DIG-ds-04284
President Wilson and Tumulty LC-F8-4852
Poster: “We Demand the Liberty” LC-B2-4064-10
Poster: “Agitation and Defence” LC-B2-4064-8
Suffragettes picketing White House LC-B2-4112-10
Sign: “Woman Suffrage Party Garden Plot” LC-B2-4268-5
Georges Clemenceau, French premier LC-USZ62-16373
Two women with six sons each in uniform LC-B2-4572-10
Doughboys with Christmas packages from home LC-B2-4467-7
Pistol training LC-B2-4596-1
Marines marching uphill LC-B2-4402-4
Ferdinand Foch, supreme Allied commander LC-USZ62-103890
Pétain and Pershing LC-B2-4814-14
Paul von Hindenburg LC-B2-4471-8
Wisconsin Republican Irvine Lenroot LC-B2-4174-5
Field hospital at trenchline C-B2-4536-9
Marines with field gun LC-B2-4404-2
Attacking with hand grenades LC-DIG-ds-04293
Attending man with head wound LC-B2-4519-9
German prisoners of war LC-B2-4268-3
Happy German prisoners reclining LC-B2-4257-10
Sergeant Alvin York LC-B2-4969-8
Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau, Wilson LC-B2-4956-10
Ruined street with horse cart LC-B2-4540-1
Two men, one heavily bandaged LC-USZ62-115013
Wrecked stone buildings LC-B2-4500-9
Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Sonnino LC-B2-4852-14
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge LC-USZ62-36185
Vittorio Orlando of Italy LC-B2-3322-14
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau of Germany LC-B2-5858-1
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer LC-USZ62-111660
William Bullitt LC-USZ62-133033
Senator Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska LC-H261-4200-7
Victory celebration, New York LC-B2-4743-12
Eugene Debs on release from prison LC-USZ62-111659
By G. J. Meyer
The World Remade: America in World War I
The Borgias: The Hidden History
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914–1918
Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America
The Memphis Murders
About the Author
G. J. MEYER is the author of three popular works of history, The Borgias, The Tudors, and A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, as well as Executive Blues and The Memphis Murders. He received an M.A. from the University of Minnesota, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and later was awarded Harvard University’s Nieman Fellowship in Journalism. He has taught at colleges in Des Moines, St. Louis, and New York, and now lives in Wiltshire, England.
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