Episode #130
Host - Theo Mayer
- 100 Years Ago This Week: Ike’s Big Road Trip - Host |@ 01:50
- Remembering Veterans: Veterans History Project - Col Karen Lloyd USA (ret.) |@ 11:15
- Spotlight On the media: Ernst Jünger Documentary - Elsa Minisini |@ 22:20
- Articles & Posts - Weekly Dispatch - Host |@ 33:55
Sources
Highway History, Federal Highway Administration, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm
Pfeiffer, David A., “Ike’s Interstates at 50,” Prologue Magazine, The National Archives of the United States, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/summer/interstates.html
Klein, Christopher, “The Epic Road Trip that Inspired the Interstate Highway System, https://www.history.com/news/the-epic-road-trip-that-inspired-the-interstate-highway-system
Thompson, Helen, “How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized America’s Highways,” Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1919-ike-took-hellish-road-trip-across-us-180956284/
“1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy,” https://www.dwightdeisenhower.com/368/1919-Transcontinental-Motor-Convoy
Cook, Kevin L., “Ike’s Road Trip,” American History, https://www.historynet.com/ikes-road-trip.htm
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/07/01/issue.html
World War I - NOW Remembering Veterans Veterans’ History Project - Gold Star Family Voices Act - Col. Karen Lloydhttps://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/11/new-director-appointed-to-lead-veterans-history-project/
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s3419
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/114th-congress/house-report/663
https://www.goldstarmoms.com/legislative-news.html
Spotlight on the Media “The Red and The Gray” - Elsa Minisimihttps://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/articles-posts/6206-the-red-and-the-gray.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-Junger
https://fidmarseille.org/en/personnalite/elsa-minisini/
Articles and Posts Highlight from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host
Sponsors:
The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Starr Foundation
The Doughboy Foundation
Production:
Executive Producer: Dan Dayton
Producer & Host: Theo Mayer
Line Producer: Katalin Laszlo
Line Producer in Training: Juliette Cowall
Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer
Interview Editing
Mac Nelsen Tim Crowe
Research and support: JL Michaud
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