Search the American Memory Collection of sound recordings to listen to some of the songs sung by the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces. Search on World War in American Life Histories, 1936-1940 to read veterans' stories. Search on World War in American Leaders Speak, 1918-1920 to find recordings of speeches on the subject of the First World War. View films shot during the First World War in the collection Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920 . Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Attends Women in War Work Congress in Paris, 1918.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority . . .
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant . . . Mencken, who generated a strong literary current in Baltimore during the 1920s and 1930s, was best known for his scathing social commentary, critical support of emerging writers, and for his scholarly understanding of American usage of the English language. During this period, he also wrote for The Free Lance and, then, for a New York monthly magazine, The Smart Set , which he co-edited with the drama critic George Nathan from 1914 to 1923. Mencken left the Smart Set with Nathan and A. A. Knopf to establish the American Mercury in 1924.