WEEK FIFTY-ONE: The Year That Was 1917

How well do you remember the big events of 1917? The Zimmerman Telegraph? Mata Hari? And the two big events: the creations of marshmallow fluff and the US entering World War I? Jeff and Vinnie try to jog their memories of how much of the last year they remember.

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/13/items/Week51TheYearThatWas/Week%2051%20--%20The%20Year%20That%20Was.mp3

WEEK FIFTY: The Toys of 1917

It's Christmastime in 1917! Jeff and Vinnie pull up a vintage toy catalog and pick out what they want hundred-years-younger Santa to bring them: a bank that looks like a wood-burning stove? A bucket? A slightly different bucket? A spoon? The choices are endless!

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/29/items/Week50TheToysOf1917/Week%2050%20--%20The%20Toys%20of%201917.mp3

WEEK FORTY-EIGHT: The Halifax Explosion

The 1917 Podcast is getting ready to end the year on a bang, and by bang we mean the dreadful Halifax Explosion, basically the biggest manmade explosion up until the atomic bomb. Plus a quiz on Finland: Jeff and Vinnie are both, somehow, 1/8 Finnish and don't know how.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/8/items/Week49HalifaxExplosion/Week%2049%20--%20Halifax%20Explosion.mp3

WEEK FORTY-SEVEN: Boys Town

If you're a Nebraska orphan, you're going to love this week's episode of the 1917 Podcast, because it's all about you, and about Boys Town, the orphanage you presumably live in right now. Plus a quiz on ice cream, and find out why Jeff and Vinnie's celebrity doppelgangers are Garrison Keiller and Artie Lange. 

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/13/items/Week48BOYSTOWN/Week%2048%20--%20BOYS%20TOWN.mp3

WEEK FORTY-SIX: Tanks

If you've been listening to these episodes, tanks. Tanks a lot. A whole episode of tanks for your listening pleasure! Plus celebrate the birth of Ukraine with a quiz about famous Ukrainians. As a bonus Jeff not once says "Crimea river," but he wanted to.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/14/items/Week47Tanks/Week%2047%20--%20Tanks.mp3

WEEK FORTY-FIVE: Joseph Coors

In this episode of the 1917 Podcast Vinnie Nardiello reveals his greatest secret!* Also, we talk about Joseph Coors, the animals of 1917, and the founding of a fraternity.
*The secret is a sandwich.

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/21/items/Week46JosephCoors/Week%2046%20--%20Joseph%20Coors%20.mp3

WEEK FORTY-FOUR: Red October

One country rises, as 100 years ago today the Red October Revolution begins! One county falls, as the deposed Queen of Hawaii dies in exile. A lot happened in just one week.

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/7/items/Week45RedOctober/Week%2045%20--%20Red%20October.mp3

WEEK FORTY-THREE: The Balfour Declaration

In under an hour Jeff and Vinnie hash out the beginnings of the Israel/Palestine conflict, learn about the man who got paid to fart on stage on the Moulin Rouge, and for some reason figure out that the Punisher is from Staten Island.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/33/items/Week44BalfourDeclaration/Week%2044%20--%20Balfour%20Declaration.mp3

WEEK FORTY-TWO: Felix the Cat

Join Jeff and Vinnie for an odd couple week! First is Felix the Cat, then happy birthday to Oscar winner Joan Fontaine! Felix the Cat's a real neat freak, and Joan Fontaine is a sportwriting slob. 

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/7/items/Week43FelixTheCat/Week%20%2043%20--%20Felix%20the%20Cat.mp3

WEEK FORTY-ONE: Dizzy Gillespie

Just ten days surrounds the birthdays of two jazz legends. Last week was Thelonious Monk, and this week, Jeff and Vinnie toot it up with Dizzy Gillespie. Also Churchill's balls, dancing cops, bald mermaids, Ma Barker, and salted peanuts!

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/11/items/Week42DizzyGillespie/Week%2042%20--%20Dizzy%20Gillespie.mp3

WEEK FORTY: Leon Trotsky

It's a Trotsky-Monk sandwich! Jeff and Vinnie begin the show with some great Thelonious Monk music, discuss the life and times of Leon Trotsky, and finish up the episode with a Monk quiz. 

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/35/items/Week41Monk/Week%2041%20--%20Monk.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-NINE: From the Library of Congress

Jeff toured the Library of Congress's World War I exhibit, and has loads of notes from Vinnie about the exhibit: hyphenates, four-minute men, the suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt, Hoover cards. Plus a quiz on the books of Walter Lord, the birthday of actress-turned incontinence spokesperson June Allyson, and theories about Thomas Jefferson's role in Optimus Prime's parentage.

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/14/items/Week40FromTheLibraryOfCongress/Week%2040%20--%20From%20the%20Library%20of%20Congress.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-EIGHT: Red Auerbach

A discussion about drummer Buddy Rich leads Jeff and Vinnie to discuss their favorite celebrity meltdown. A discussion about Edgar Degas led to a discussion of Degas's appearances in time-travel movies. A discussion about food riots leads to how potato rolls work. A quiz about Red Auerbach leads to, uh, ten questions about a Boston Celtic coach. 

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/35/items/Week39RedAuerbach/Week%2039%20--%20Red%20Auerbach.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN: Radio Days

This week Jeff and Vinnie talk about the history of radio's usage in World War One, which means they very quickly transition to talking about the robot in Rocky IV. Plus a quiz on the many voice roles of June Foray, the world's greatest female voice artist!

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/16/items/Week38RadioDays/Week%2038%20--%20Radio%20Days.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-ONE: Who Killed Frank Little?

MURRRRDER! And everyone in 1917 is a suspect! Only you can determine who the real killer is! Jeff and Vinnie turn a union killing into a murder mystery, and you can play along at home. Plus the birthday of Hagar the Horrible's Dik Browne, the spectacularly ill-conceived Green Corn Rebellion, and the Converse All-Star shoe!

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/3/items/Week31WhoKilledFrankLittle_20171004/Week%2031%20--%20Who%20Killed%20Frank%20Little.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-SIX: Honus Wagner

Join Jeff and "Malaysian Joe" Vinnie Nardiello for a look at Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner, the world's greatest shortstop, who hung up his baseball glove 100 years ago today. Also a quiz on Forbes Magazine. Brought to you by our new sponsor, Bayer's Heroin -- ask for it by name!

https://ia801503.us.archive.org/22/items/Week37HonusWagner/Week%2037%20--%20Honus%20Wagner.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-FIVE: Colorblindness

Until 1917, there was no way of knowing if the red you saw at a stop sign looked like the red other people saw. Jeff and Vinnie take the colorblindness test: you can, too, at http://colorvisiontesting.com/ishihara.htm. Plus, a quiz on Air Jordan collector Ferdinand Marcos!

https://ia601504.us.archive.org/2/items/Week36Colorblindness/Week%2036%20--%20Colorblindness.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-FOUR: Jack Kirby

This week Jeff and Vinnie talk almost exclusively about Jack Kirby, the king of comics, born 100 years ago today. Kirby gave the world Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk! Jeff quizzes Vinnie of the Kirby deep cuts, like the Newsboy Legion and Annihilius. 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/2/items/Week35JackKirby/Week%2035%20--%20Jack%20Kirby.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-THREE: Sherlock Holmes

Holmes in the house! 1917 saw the release of the final Sherlock Homes novel, His Last Bow, so Jeff and Vinnie dive into Holmes trivia, history, and films. Plus happy birthday to Mel Ferrer (who is not José Ferrer), surprise egg videos, and how Christopher Reeve could burp the alphabet.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/14/items/Week34SherlockHolmes/Week%2034%20--%20Sherlock%20Holmes.mp3

WEEK THIRTY-TWO: Robert Mitchum

Centennarian Robert Mitchum was a giant of cinema, a towering figure, and as we find out, a man who lived life as a hobo, calypso singer, and drunken thrower of basketballs at women's heads. Jeff and Vinnie sit down with his body of work, and also discuss the first man to successfully land a plane on a boat, the very same man who like three days later died trying it again, and the surprising 1917 origins of anime!

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/25/items/Week32RobertMitchum/Week%2032%20--%20Robert%20Mitchum.mp3

WEEK THIRTY: J Edgar Hoover

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People with skeletons in the closet beware: 100 years ago today, J Edgar Hoover started building a dossier against you! The longtime head of the FBI, cross-dresser, and blackmail enthusiast started his government work in 1917! Jeff and Vinnie also quiz themselves on the vocabulary of 1917, discuss the Renaissance man James Weldon Johnson, and put their Jimmys together -- phrasing -- do duelling Jimmy Stewart impressions.

WEEK TWENTY-NINE: Yugoslavia

For the first time in 1917 history, a country is formed! Join Jeff and Vinnie as they learn about the origins of Yugoslavia, what "Yugoslavia" means, and if Casino Royale was set in Montenegro because someone mistyped Monte Carlo, Plus Phyllis Diller's birthday, the worst screenplay idea in the world, Bibles that will stop a bullet, and when it's okay to forge old valuable stamps.

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/25/items/Week29Yugoslavia/Week%2029%20--%20Yugoslavia.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-EIGHT: The Cottingley Fairies

Do you believe in fairies? The folks of 1917 did, even if the fairies turned out to be cardboard cutouts posed in a field. Join Jeff and Vinnie also celebrate Mr. Wizard Don Herbert's birthday, and deal with yet another explosion.

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/16/items/Week28CottingleyFairies/Week%2028%20--%20Cottingley%20Fairies.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN: Radium Girls

A glowing week for the 1917 Podcast, as Jeff and Vinnie discuss the newest health fad, radium! Plus the birthday of Andy Capp's cartoonist, a special guest bearing gifts, and the TV of WWI. 

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/29/items/Week27RadiumGirls/Week%2027%20--%20Radium%20Girls.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-SIX: Fashion

Birthday girl Lena Horne starts the 1917 Podcast out right with Stormy Weather. Then, during the talk of 1917 fashions, the podcast experiences its own form of storminess, in the form of a mike that stops working about 25 minutes before Jeff and Vinnie are aware of it. This one's skippable, folks, or at the very least scrubbable to 37:30, when the audio kinda sorta resumes.

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/5/items/WEEK26Fashion/WEEK%2026%20--%20Fashion.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-FIVE: Shackleton

 If you're a fan of survival, endurance, and a stunning lack of cannibalism, then you'll love hearing about Antarctic Ernest Shackleton! Jeff and Vinnie travel to Antarctica to learn about ice floes, dogloos, and slirt! Plus a quiz about Salisbury steak, hot dogs, liberty cabbage, and other German words that were unGermanned for WWI. (And for some reason more on the Fantastic Four/Cocoon reboot.)

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/19/items/Week25Shackleton/Week%2025%20--%20Shackleton.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR: The Pulitzer Prize

 Why did the chicken cross the road? To get a pullet surprise! This week
in 100 Years Ago Today, Jeff and Vinnie discuss the Pulitzer Prize
awards, given out for the first time in 1917. Plus more Enrico Caruso,
more General Pershing, more explosions, our first appearance of drunk
Kurt Vonnegut and poetry-hating Ray Bradbury, and more quizzes!

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/30/items/Week24ThePulitzers/Week%2024%20--%20The%20Pulitzers.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-THREE: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

So much happened this week a hundred years ago today people are STILL talking about it! Well, two people are: Jeff and Vinnie. They celebrate the birthdays of Whizzer White and Dean Martin, discuss the classiness of the Lions Club, and pay tribute to the first baseball celebrity who enlisted for the Great War. Plus a quiz on if birthday boy John Kennedy was never born!

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/10/items/Week23TheMostExcellentOrderOfTheBritishEmpire/Week%2023%20--%20The%20Most%20Excellent%20Order%20of%20the%20British%20Empire.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-TWO: Wonder Woman

The 1917 Podcast goes to the movies, for a special episode recorded in Jeff's car before and then after a screening of Wonder Woman! Find out how 1917 the cars, buses, mustaches, and fashions were! Learn about a large man Vinnie sees in the parking lot, who Vinnie can't stop talking about. Take a quiz on the other wonder women of 1917, and grapple with the question of if this week's sponsor Dr. Batty's Asthma Cigarettes are a real thing or not. 

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/13/items/Week22WonderWoman/week%2022--%20wonder%20woman.mp3

WEEK TWENTY-ONE: John Carter of Mars

What do Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Superman, and Avatar have in common? They all ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, written in 1917. Plus celebrate Raymond Burr's birthday, Walter Lippman's anniversary, and accept out apology for the intro song being way, way too loud.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/22/items/Week21JohnCarterOfMars/Week%2021%20--%20John%20Carter%20of%20Mars.mp3

WEEK TWENTY: The Draft

In a week brought to you by Nash Motors's Jeffery Sedan, learn about the Selective Service Act via a round robin tournament of reason people objected to it. That's right, Jeff and Vinnie do a draft about the draft! Plus learn about Jeff's alternate reality if he drank a ballerina's beer, Vinnie's childhood dream come true, and far too much talk -- or maybe not enough talk -- on Police Acadamy.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/8/items/Week20TheDraft/Week%2020%20--%20The%20Draft.mp3

WEEK NINETEEN: Our Lady of Fatima

A miracle occurred a hundred years ago today, a miracle at Fatima Portugal. In a much more minor miracle, Jeff and Vinnie try not to blaspheme while discussing it. Try, not succeed. Also a quiz about the career of General Pershing, the world's shortest Theodore Roosevelt film, and more sad! French! war songs!

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/7/items/Week19OurLadyOfFatima/Week%2019%20--%20Our%20Lady%20of%20Fatima.mp3

WEEK EIGHTEEN: HP Lovecraft

What a blockbuster week A Hundred Years Ago Today! The world’s first exoplanet! The French protest song that was banned for over 50 years! HP Lovecraft’s Dagon! That time when one hundred Super Marios all turned Jeff down! Vinnie's feelings about the cosplay community -- shockingly, he's not a fan. Plus a Price Is Right Quiz on money circa 1917.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/16/items/Week18HPLovecraft/Week%2018%20--%20HP%20Lovecraft.mp3

WEEK SEVENTEEN: Ella Fitzgerald

It's Ella Fitzgerald's hundredth birthday! It's Babe Ruth's no-hitter! It's wondering what ever happened to the Brooklyn Robins and the St. Louis Browns! It's wondering what's creepier, not cursing or smoking cigars! It's the 1917 podcast!

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/16/items/Week17EllaFitzgerald/Week%2017%20--%20Ella%20Fitzgerald.mp3

WEEK SIXTEEN: Charlie Chaplin

Jeff and Vinnie try out moon pies -- started in 1917! -- the driest dessert this side of Dorothy Parker's rapier wit. They discuss the very first actor who played James Bond -- BC, before Connery -- who was born this week in 1917. Then the main event, as we dig into the classic Charlie Chaplin short The Immigrant. Come for Jeff explaining sight gags, stay for Vinnie's theories on who's "really" an immigrant! 

https://ia601500.us.archive.org/14/items/Week16CharlieChaplin/Week%2016%20--%20Charlie%20Chaplin.mp3

WEEK FIFTEEN: Marcel Duchamp

After an extended tangent on Jeff's film career as an extra, he and Vinnie without distraction dive into Bloody April, where the Red Baron shoots down dozens of British aircraft. And then after a tangent about John Denver and the Muppets with no distraction they jump into a talk about the explosion of the week, this time in Pennsylvania. Then onto Marcel DuChamp's Fountain, the all-time greatest work of modern art, which -- spoiler alert -- is a urinal. Then a quiz about the companies founded in 1917, and a epic discussion of Diamond Jim Brady and his massive, turtle-eating appetite.

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/18/items/Week15MarcelDuchamp/Week%2015%20--%20Marcel%20Duchamp.mp3

WEEK FOURTEEN: Declaring War

It’s a week of tragedy A Hundred Years Ago Today, as the United States is entering World War One. In a lesser tragedy, Pepsi is advertised for breakfast. In what’s not at all a tragedy and not even an
inconvenience, Jeff goes to Vinnie’s house to record, instead of Vinnie driving to Jeff’s place. In what could be filed under “tragedy“ if that’s how you arrange your DVD collection, Jeff and Vinnie also talk about Godfather II, and discover one of them does a pretty credible Crypt Keeper. 

https://ia601503.us.archive.org/20/items/Week14DeclaringWar/Week%2014--%20Declaring%20War.mp3

WEEK THIRTEEN: The NHL

Week 13 of The 1917 Podcast brings Jeff and Vinnie to the introduction of the National Hockey League! Vinnie's seen four hockey games, but Jeff saw one last year, so they're both really experts in the world's fastest sport. Plus birthdays, a quiz, and more!

https://ia601501.us.archive.org/21/items/Week13TheNHL/week%2013%20--%20The%20NHL.mp3

WEEK TWELVE: The 8-Hour Day

In just over 40 minutes, Jeff and Vinnie discuss eight hours of work! Or, rather, the concept f the 8-hour workday, which took a big step forward in 1917. Also on the docket: the disturbing antiwar film All Quiet on the Western Front, a quiz on the racehorse Man-o-War, hard soap, soft soap, Jeannette Rankin (the first female member of Congress) and your weekly references to Johnny Carson and Mad Magazine.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/21/items/Week128HourWorkday/Week%2012--8-hour%20workday.mp3

WEEK TEN: The Zimmerman Telegram

In March of 1917 we (we being the United States) weren't in World War I. By April we were. Why? The Zimmerman Telegram! Find out about it via the quasi-reliable source of Jeff and Vinnie. Also learn about Puerto Rican citizenship, the birth of Dinah Shore, a cavalcade of Will Eisner info, and how William Henry Harrison really died -- no DNA evidence of a coat.

https://ia601506.us.archive.org/22/items/Week10TheZimmermanTelegram/Week%2010--%20The%20Zimmerman%20Telegram.mp3

WEEK ELEVEN: Upton Sinclar

What a big week! Russia fall apart! Fictional mines explode! Journalists rake muck like Hercules cleaning a stable! In this week of 100 Years Ago Today: the 1917 Podcast, Jeff and Vinnie dive into the works of Upton Sinclar, set the table for the first of two (2) 1917 Russian Revolutions, find a way to bring all conversations back to penis jokes, Mad Magazine, and the 1986 Mets.

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/34/items/Week11UptonSinclair/Week%2011%20--%20Upton%20Sinclair.mp3

WEEK NINE: Delmonico's

Pull up a chair, tuck in a napkin, and prepare for a mouth-watering feast, as the 1917 podcast heads to Delmonico's to see what the finest fare of a hundred years ago today offered. Come for the broth, stay for the celery! And French spellings of "tomato" and "rotisserie". And lots of local seafood from from the East River. Plus learn about Vinnie's boxing connections, the marriage of sculptor Auguste Rodan, and celebrate the birth of Anthony Burgess with a Clockwork Orange quiz.

https://ia601502.us.archive.org/5/items/Week9Delmonicos/Week%209%20--%20Delmonico's.mp3

WEEK EIGHT: Son of Tarzan

If you thought you knew Tarzan..well, you probably DO know Tarzan. But did you know Tarzan had a son? A son who very conveniently went through the exact same trials and tribulations as his dad? Find out this week in 100 Years Ago Today, the 1917 Podcast. Jeff and Vinnie also touch on the Archangel explosion, the sinking of the SS Merdi, and celebrate the birthdays of Sidney Sheldon and Cormac McCarthy.

https://ia601508.us.archive.org/0/items/Week8SonOfTarzan/Week%208%20--%20Son%20of%20Tarzan.mp3

WEEK SEVEN: Mata Hari

f you're like me, you've HEARD of Matai Hari but are pretty vague in the details after that. Was she a spy? Was she framed? Was she a courtesan? Was she a beauty? Was she a turncoat? Was she Malaysian, Was she Dutch? All these questions are answered! Plus, learn about iced Postum, eat some hair, find out about a Disney sled dog time has forgotten, and take the Junior quiz in honor of the founder of Carl's Jr.

https://ia601507.us.archive.org/34/items/WEEK7MATAHARI/WEEK%207%20--%20MATA%20HARI.mp3

WEEK SIX: The M1917 Rifle

Two guys who are not really knowledgeable about guns try to take a shot -- we will pause here for seven minutes so you can catch your breath from the humor in that word play -- at explaining why the M1917 rifle was so important to winning WWI Also Zsa-Zsa Gabor, talk about what coffee substitute Postum was like, Pancho Villa, the Dam or Dame quiz, and U-Boats.

https://ia801503.us.archive.org/22/items/WEEK6THEM1917RIFLE/WEEK%206%20--%20THE%20M1917%20RIFLE.mp3

WEEK FIVE: The Edmontonsaurus

Dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs this week on the 1917 podcast.

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WEEK FOUR: The Silent Sentinels

Who are The Silent Sentinels? What cities do you visit on the 11-City Race? Who was more of a cut-up on the stump, Woodrow Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt? Why do time machine stories head to WWII but hardly ever WWI? These and other questions about 1917 are answered this week on 100 Years Ago Today, the 1917 Podcast. Take a gander!

https://ia601509.us.archive.org/26/items/Week4THESILENTSENTINELS/Week%204%20-%20THE%20SILENT%20SENTINELS.mp3 

WEEK THREE: Calories

Week three of the 100 Years Ago Today: the 1917 podcast introduces you to selling donuts at home for cash money -- wink wink -- more explosions, the birth of Ernest Borgnine, the invention of the calorie, Jeff's hazy recollection of what a kilocalorie is, Vinnie's outrage about a mayonnaise story, and false memories about cottage cheese.

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/8/items/121Calories/1:21%20--%20Calories.mp3

WEEK TWO: The Kingsland Explosion!

Week 2 of the podcast delves into PG Wodehouse, the Mahareshi, various North Jersey explosions, and the Waltons' view of WWI.

https://ia801506.us.archive.org/30/items/114KINGSLANDEXPLOSION/1:14%20--%20KINGSLAND%20EXPLOSION.mp3

WEEK ONE: Lawrence of Arabia

WEEK ONE (January 1-7, 1917) -- LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

In our debut episode, Jeff and Vinnie explain the purpose of the show, needle each other about weddings, deal with the best strategies to talk about Lawrence of Arabia when you have not in fact seen Lawrence of Arabia, how Jeff accidentally watched Lawrence of Arabia backwards, a quiz about Jane Wyman's five ex-husbands, and Vinnie's determination what the F-word of 1917 was.

Update: the link would help. https://ia601504.us.archive.org/23/items/Week1LAWRENCEOFARABIA/Week%201%20--%20LAWRENCE%20OF%20ARABIA.mp3

Welcome to 100 Years Ago Today! Each week Jeff and Vinnie will discuss the events of precisely 100 years ago this week. This being 2017, that means that all 52 episodes will be devoted to the events of 1917.

Are we historians? No. Are we graduate students in historical fields? No. Did we each take the one required history elective to we could graduate from our New Jersey state school? An empahtic yes. So we're a different sort of tour guide. We're tour guides who are learning about this as you are.

The 1917 version of email was the telegram: electronic communication over telepgraph wires, blazing coast to coast with dots and dashes. In honor of that technology, we will only accept correspondance via Western Union.

Or not: we're at 1917podcast@gmail.com.

If you've got something to add to an episode, if we botched a bit of the historical record, let us know. Seriously: we're in this to learn, and we'll go on saying that President Woodrow Wilson moonlighted as a brothel piano player unless you tell us otherwise.

Or if you've got a favorite bit of 1917 historia you want to share: odds are we don't yet know about it. I had to double-check that Woodrow Wilson was in fact president. You think I know what great culinary trend had its start in 1917? I do not. Let me know.

Thanks for listening, and see you in 100 years!