Browse Exhibits (3 total)

The Woman’s Land Army of America (WLAA) was an organization that began as an effort to alleviate the farm labor and food shortages that the United States was facing during World War I. This organization, formed and run entirely by women, recruited and trained female volunteers to work the fields at a time when male farmhands were scarce. These women, known as farmerettes, made a significant contribution to the war effort and helped to ensure that the American nation and its men fighting in Europe were well fed.

This exhibit explores the activities of the Woman's Land Army of America in World War I.

This exhibit focuses on the end of World War One, specifically the Armistice and how it became Veterans Day. Newspaper articles and photographs from Hartford, Connecticut are used in order to understand how the public received the Armistice and how their views about this specific day changed through out history. In order to fully express the attitudes of the American people the tone of the exhibit is primarily that of American Pride.