When writing the First World War comes home: Remembering Pvt. Harold Carter
Sometimes, when we lecture about things seemingly distant, we need a reminder that the past is closer at hand than we realize.
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Sexing Up Canada’s First World War
By Zachary Abram Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force, with an infection rate that reached as high as 28.7%. [1] Anyone with a passing interest in the First World War is familiar with Trench Foot and its symptoms are synonymous… Read more »