This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, and several local institutions have mined their collections to recount the war’s history, from its convoluted origins through its devastating aftermath. These include the Newberry Library, which uses newspapers and photographs from its archive to show the role Chicagoans played “over there,” and the Art Institute, which highlighted the contributions of photographer Edward Steichen to, among other things, U.S. Army intelligence during the war. (The Art Institute show has closed; the Newberry display will be up until January 3.)
“People kept asking what could have motivated men to fight for so long,” Harris continues. “It gives an insight into the ideology that allowed it to go forward.”
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