Military Science Exercise
Middlebury, 1918
Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury College
Middlebury, 1918
Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury College
WWI: Here and There displays the multiple fronts of World War I through recreations and artifacts from Middlebury College Special Collections. The exhibition highlights the porosity of the battlefield at global and local scales, challenging the myth that one can abstain from war. Though the front was thousands of miles away, Middlebury students confronted the realities of war in their everyday lives.
This exhibition emphasizes student responses to war on the homefront as well as students’ active service in the theater of war. Follow the lives of wartime Middlebury students, Ruth Hesselgrave, class of 1918, and Karl Sterns, class of 1915. Explore the impacts of food scarcity and conservation on women and children and the militaristic regulation of private and public space. Question the effects of wartime propaganda in the physical world, as well as its contemporary forms. Here and There interrogates our own positionality as Middlebury students, and presents war as a familiar continuum of life — marred by sacrifice, entropy, and humanity’s horrific capacity for violence.
This exhibition emphasizes student responses to war on the homefront as well as students’ active service in the theater of war. Follow the lives of wartime Middlebury students, Ruth Hesselgrave, class of 1918, and Karl Sterns, class of 1915. Explore the impacts of food scarcity and conservation on women and children and the militaristic regulation of private and public space. Question the effects of wartime propaganda in the physical world, as well as its contemporary forms. Here and There interrogates our own positionality as Middlebury students, and presents war as a familiar continuum of life — marred by sacrifice, entropy, and humanity’s horrific capacity for violence.
In-person exhibit on display in the Davis Family Library atrium January 2023
Curated by History of Art and Architecture students in States of Emergency and Art and Photography in World War I, the exhibition was supported by Middlebury College Special Collections and the Public Humanities Labs Initiative administered by the Axinn Center for the Humanities. Our work was made possible by the generous support of Professors Sarah Rogers and Erin Sassin, Mikaela Taylor and Rebekah Irwin of Middlebury College Special Collections, Project-Based Learning Assistants Anne Lofgren ‘23 and Alexis Welch ‘22.5, and Independent Study Student Katarina Flik ‘22.5.
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Ben Allan-Rahill ‘23
Lisa Brady, ‘23 Eliza Broughton, ‘22.5 Elizabeth Cady, ‘23 Isabella Cady, ‘22.5 Mae Chalmers, ‘22.5 Madeline Cordeiro ‘23 Cole Crider ‘23.5 Madeline Cordeiro ‘23 Cole Crider ‘23.5 Beatrice Donovan ‘23.5 Jane Earley, ‘23 Ben Elstner ‘22.5 Katarina Flik ‘22.5 Christopher Fridlington, ‘24 Yardena Gerwin, ‘22.5 Melisa Gurkan, ‘23.5 Joe Hanlon ‘23.5 Valentina Helene Hogenhuis, ‘22.5 Sophie Hiland, ‘22.5 Makenna Janes, ‘23 Bronwyn Jensen ‘25 Sam Korman, ‘22.5 Ethan Leonard ‘25 Joseph Levitan, ‘22.5 Martine Ma, ‘22.5 Duncan McCabe, ‘22.5 Kyra McClean, ‘23 Raffi Najarian ‘23 Cecilia Needham, ‘22.5 Cate Parkinson ‘25 Aine Powers ‘24 Grayson Shanley Barr, ‘23.5 Giulia Shaughnessy, ‘22.5 Patrick Stevenson, ‘22.5 Emma Tzotschew, ‘23.5 |