However you name it, the World War that lasted from 1914 through 1918 was a great tragedy that defined the end of an old order and laid the foundations for a new and different century. The purpose of this page is to provide a limited collection of selective articles and records related to the great conflict. 1
UPDATED THE 31ST OF JANUARY 2005
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The helmet picture on our main page was found in Logan County, Ohio in the early fifties. Local research indicated that a Lester Jenkins of Rushsylvania, Ohio had brought the helmet home from Europe. He served with the 37th "Buckeye" Division of the Ohio National Guard in the Argonne Offensive of 1918. Further research indicates that the helmet probably came from a German heavy cavalry regiment of Cuirassiers. 2 |
A Study Guide & Notes on the Great War GENERAL ARTICLES ON THE GREAT WAR
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A word of thanks to Robert Stump Jr and Nathan Vanover & John Ropp who helped make this transition from unpublished college papers to electronic retrievability possible in the spring of 1997. For the content of these pages, I take professional responsibility. The Great War has been a focus of special interest ever since my independent study courses at Ohio Northern University in the early seventies. The various pages are based on my college papers from that time and the military miniatures, flags and hats are from private collections.
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Foot Notes:
1 World War One accommodated the transfer of national power from nominally Christian world leaders, to a brave new world of socialist and humanist visionaries. While not all of the great powers suffered such drastic takeovers, the ongoing tensions between traditional Judeo-Christian Moralists and the worldly enthusiasts for a more human focus, has defined much of the cultural tension and conflict since the terrible war in the trenches ended. While most of the world's scholars have largely discredited the sinful nature of mankind and deplored the traditional biblical view that history has a beginning and an end in which the providential will of the Creator is being worked out, this historian believes that a valid understanding of what happened between 1914 and 1918 can be formed responsibly only within the traditional theologically civilized framework once known as Western Civilization.
2 Rankin, Robert H. Helmets and Headdress of the Imperial German Army 1870-1918.
Background Map: The background map of 1900 Europe was scanned from Crowell and Kirkpatrick. The New People's Atlas of the World. (1901)
