UW President’s War Convocation: What Does War Mean to Me? 4/1/1917. Stock Pavilion. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
“Perhaps some milk will help you study.” Memorial Library, 1965. Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn’t advance. We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead. I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration — even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!
—Jay Gatsby to Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via gunsandposes)
(via gunsandposes)
(Source: templeofdamneds, via witchywomanx)
I just finished my last assignment of the semester! Huzzah!
Conservatism is the policy of making no changes and consulting your grandmother when in doubt.
—Woodrow Wilson
All Is Calm, All Is Bright by United States Marine Corps Official Page on Flickr.
Marines with Lima Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, fire M777A2 Lightweight Howitzers aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 11, 2012, during Exercise Steel Knight. Steel Knight is a combined arms exercise conducted by 1st Marine Division Marines and sailors from all elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl Jason Morrison) #USMC
© Heinrich Hoffmann, late 1920s, Hitler posing to a recording of one of his speeches
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), strikes a pose for photographer Heinrich Hoffmann whilst listening to a recording of his own speeches. These photographs taken reveal how Adolf Hitler rehearsed his hand gestures for his public speeches. He used to ask Hoffmann to take pictures of these so he could see what he would look like to the German people, as one of Hitler’s greatest and most well-known skills was his public speaking, which he used to his advantage to emphasise his notion of a “great national revival” of Germany.
Once he saw them, he would vet the pictures and decide whether to incorporate the various animated movements in his engagements. Hitler later banned them from being published for being “beneath one’s dignity”. But the photos, which were never intended to be seen, survived the war. The vetoed photos were stored in Hoffmann’s studio until his arrest at the end of the war, whereupon they disappeared into various archives.
They were later published in his little-known memoir, “Hitler Was My Friend”, in the 1950s and have now been released in English to be seen by the general public. They capture the meticulous training Hitler undertook to perfect his famous speeches, and give a rare insight into his vanity and controlling personality. (more photos and info here: +, +, +)
jebrisco replied to your link: Tory Stories from the Simsbury Copper Mine - Journal of the American Revolution
You should the book Tories. So many unheard stories and a side of the war most people never learn about
I’ve heard of it and have been meaning to buy it but I’ve never gotten around to it. I’m going to try and read books that I actually want to read this summer. I’ve read too many monographs this semester.
“This UW student catches a quick nap while studying for finals in the Commerce Library.” 1965. Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
“This UW student’s dorm room study area is well-stocked with pen and ink, yet full of distractions.” 1925. Madison, Wisconsin.
From: The University of Wisconsin Archives
(Source: interwar, via derwolfsmantel)
The chrysanthemum show, Tokyo Japan. 1907.
From: The UK National Archiives
