Congressional Medals & Donuts: Ep. #115

Congressional Medals & Donuts Episode #115 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @ 02:10 Mandates? Colonies by Another Name - Mike Shuster | @ 11:05 Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan | @ 15:00 Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 21:20 Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin | @ 27:00 Congressional Gold Medal for the Hello Girls - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs | @ 33:00 National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host | @ 41:20 Dispatch Newsletter Highlights - Host | @ 43:55----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Third Week of March, 1919 - Host https://timesmachine.nytimes.com The Great War Project Mandates? Colonies by Another Name- Mike Schuster http://greatwarproject.org/2019/03/17/mandates-colonies-by-another-name/ Remembering Veterans Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1154 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/donut-girls-wwi-helped-fill-soldiers-bellies-and-get-women-vote-180962864/ Stories of Service Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel http://www.edwardlengel.com/from-womans-suffrage-leader-to-government-agent-in-world-war-i/ http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/ http://bit.ly/2tILSQI World War I - NOW Commission News Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin http://ww1cc.org/valor Remembering Veterans “Hello Girls” Congressional Gold Medal - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/04/these-women-were-denied-veteran-status-decades-congress-cant-overlook-them-again/?utm_term=.503bff7d7b82 https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Girls-Americas-First-Soldiers/dp/0674971477 http://elizabethcobbs.com/the-hello-girls/ https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition https://the1a.org/shows/2017-07-12/americas-first-women-soldiers-had-to-fight-for-recognition-as-veterans National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host https://history.army.mil/moh/worldwari.html https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-88000/NH-88004.html Articles and Posts Highlight from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host http://ww1cc.org/dispatch   Sponsors: The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission The Pritzker Military Museum & Library The Starr Foundation the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation The Richard Lounsbery Foundation Production: Executive Producer: Dan Dayton Producer & Host: Theo Mayer Line Producer: Katalin Laszlo Written by: Theo Mayer Special segment host: Mike Shuster Dr. Edward Lengel Researcher and writing support: JL Michaud Dave Kramer