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!