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Mail Call: a podcast of news, letters, and stories from the Great War.

Episodes range from 30-60 minutes long. You can stream podcast episodes in the player above. If you'd prefer to download them to listen on-the-go, you can find download links at the top of each page of show notes below. Also available through iTunes/Apple Podcasts.

Show Notes

Click to view the show notes for an episode for links to digitized materials in each episode.

Have an interesting sounding voice and like to talk? Consider volunteering to read for an upcoming episode: email us.

 

THE LATEST:

Not Waiting for the Call: American Women Physicians and World War I

War has always upended women’s lives; left at the home front to care for their families and returning soldiers in a society where all of the usual economic and social structures have disappeared. But by the onset of World War I, women were poised to play a more active role than that of the homemaker struggling to hold families and some semblance of civil society together with diminished resources.

"Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam": WWI in Girls' Series Fiction

An overview of three girls' series books that had heroines who participated in the war effort at home and abroad.

Prisoners Make Good at the Front

Eastern State Penitentiary—opened in 1829 and closed in 1970—operated throughout nearly every major conflict in modern American history: the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War. The inmate population mirrored a typical military population—in large part made up of young working class men.

BLOG POSTS:

Mail Call Podcast, Episode 10
February 6th
Episode 10 of the Mail Call podcast takes a closer look at women’s contributions to the war efforts.. Mail Call is also available through iTunes/Apple Podcasts.
New exhibit: “Now far from home”: the ending of the Great War in Popular Imagination and Culture”
October 4th
Now on display from October 4, 2018 through February 20th, 2019, on the 1st floor of Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, the exhibit “Now far from home”: the ending of the Great War in Popular Imagination and Culture tells the story of American…
Mail Call podcast, Episode 9
March 16th
Episode 9 of the Mail Call podcast brings to life a selection of wartime correspondence. Mail Call is also available through iTunes/Apple Podcasts.

 

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