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Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum – “Caught in the Middle Between Voices of Conscience and Voices of Patriotism,” Carolyn Zeisset, author

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

Author Carolyn Zeisset will explore the ambiguities of conscientious objection and religious exemption during World War I, and the added complexities of generational identities and socio-economic conditions during that time. Zeisset will also note parallels in her historical novel Caught in the Middle with the stories of conscientious objectors told in the traveling exhibit “Voices […]

Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum – “The Cost of Conscience: One Mennonite Family’s Experience in World War I,” Sara Judge Keckeisen, Kansas State Historical Society (retired)

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

When the United States entered World War I and instituted a military draft, and federal and state officialdom instituted heavy pressure to support the war effort, the homes, lives, and safety of members of the pacifist Mennonite communities in central Kansas, and of one family in particular, were put in extreme danger. This is the […]