Month: January 2015

 Here it is … the much anticipated title list for Phase III

As with the first two phases, the selection was made by the TNDP Advisory Board. Given the forthcoming centennial anniversaries of two historic events – the First World War and the 19th Amendment – the Board decided to focus on the years 1914-1922. As you will see from the map, we have once again striven for broad geographic coverage.

There are a couple of newspapers that fall outside of the chosen timeframe: the Tennessee Staatszeitung, and the Chilhowee Echo. The Staatszeitung was a German language paper published in post-Civil War Nashville, and the Echo was a newspaper published by women in turn-of-the-century Knoxville. On a personal note, I’m looking forward to the challenge of digitizing some non-English content, especially the technical issues which are bound to come up when working with the Fraktur type!

Click on the map below for a PDF of the map and table.

Trenches, Women, Jokes, and the Enemy: German, British, and French Soldier Newspapers during the First World War

The 2015 Charles Johnson Memorial Lecture presented by Prof. Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor, Canada)

This lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at 4pm in the UT’s Haslam Business Building, Room 303. For more information visit the Center for Study of War & Society‘s webpage.

Some of Robert L. Nelson’s research on First World War newspapers:

• Nelson, Robert L.: German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War, Cambridge 2011: Cambridge University Press.
• Nelson, Robert L.: Soldier newspapers: a useful source in the social and cultural history of the First World War and beyond, in: War in History 17/2, 2010, pp. 167-191.

Click on the image below to explore the section on Soldier Newspapers that Prof. Nelson contributed to the International Encyclopedia of the First World War.