The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) youth Based on the journal of

Based on the journal of Sergeant Jacob Osborn Coburn

as has often been said

Once the transformation is complete

Abraham Lincoln rode these rails on his way to and from Gettysburg to deliver the famed Gettysburg Address in November 1863

In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) youth Based on the journal ofby Michael S. Neibert When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring