On December 13, 1916 one of the deadliest avalanche in history occurred, and barely made the newspapers. The White Friday avalanches were a little remembered event of the little remembered, but uniquely horrible, Italian front in the Great War.
Three classic episodes of The History Guy about how the Christmas season survives even tragedy.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.