Chapter X of From Colony to Superpower covers the Wilson administration. There's a lot here; much of the chapter deals with US relations with Mexico, which Erik is probably a bit more qualified to discuss, and which I'll accordingly return to in the second round....
world war I
A correspondent points out this fantastic blog about the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. AEF Siberia was part of the effort by Britain, France, the United States, and Japan to strangle.
They ask me where I've been,And what I've done and seen.But what can I replyWho know it wasn't I,But someone just like me,Who went across the seaAnd with my head.
How important is Gallipoli to Australian identity?A row has erupted between Australia's PM Kevin Rudd and his Labor predecessor Paul Keating over the importance of Gallipoli, a WWI battle site in Turkey.Mr Keating dismissed as "nonsense" the view that a new Australian identity was forged...
John Quiggin, riffing off this Edward Lengel column, suggests that the respective experiences of Europe and the United States in World War I may explain cultural differences on the use.
Heading off to that Great Trench War in the Sky:The last living man known to have served in the French army during the “war to end all wars” — he.