{"id":372,"date":"2018-04-03T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/?p=372"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:55:12","slug":"world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/2018\/04\/03\/world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most historians describe the First World War as the first modern war, a &#8220;total war,&#8221; with the full impact of industrial lethality and destructiveness.\u00a0 However, some argue that the American Civil War introduced &#8220;total war&#8221; as a reality, especially in the final year of that conflict.\u00a0 Here is a short video from the House Divided Project, however, featuring historian Mark Neely from Penn State, arguing against this view:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5bBnBy2IHE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As part of a series of centennial commemorations, the History Channel has offered some helpful videos and data visualizations for understanding World War I:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-i\/world-war-i-history\/infographics\/world-war-i-by-the-numbers\">World War I &#8211;By the Numbers infographic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k7v3cq1ZJjM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_G4ZY66BG38\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_373\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.dickinson.edu\/image-archive\/history-class-digs-trench-1977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-373\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/files\/2018\/04\/Digging-Trench.jpg\" alt=\"Trench\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/files\/2018\/04\/Digging-Trench.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/files\/2018\/04\/Digging-Trench-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/files\/2018\/04\/Digging-Trench-446x300.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dickinson history students digging trench (1977)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most historians describe the First World War as the first modern war, a &#8220;total war,&#8221; with the full impact of industrial lethality and destructiveness.\u00a0 However, some argue that the American Civil War introduced &#8220;total war&#8221; as a reality, especially in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/2018\/04\/03\/world-war-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}