A speech entitled "Call of America," delivered by Senator James Hamilton Lewis (D-IL), in 1917 to fellow Senators, justifying American involvement in World War One.
Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886, gives a speech entitled "Labor's service to freedom" for a war bond drive during World War I.
Shirley Wajda, history curator at the Michigan State University Museum, delivers a talk entitled "A war of words: labor and anti-radical propaganda during World War I." Keller talks about her new exhibit at the museum featuring the university's extensive collection of World War I posters. She says that the goal of the exhibit is threefold: to engage visitors by telling a story of the WWI home-front through the posters, stimulate discussion of the first sustained instance of government propaganda and suppression of speech in the U.S., and to provide historical examples with which to teach media literacy. She answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Professor John P. Beck from the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
Mae-Marie Irons talks about the Women's Overseas Service League's 52nd Annual Convention held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco from July 15 to July 19, 1972. She provides a short description of the proceedings based upon her own recollections and from a news story published in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 17. Irons also reads a July 19, 1972 Chronicle story featuring quotes from WOSL member Mary Cutter as she recalls her senior year at Stanford University in 1904, helping survivors of the 1906 earthquake, volunteering for duty in France during World War One, and finally receiving recognition for her 1906 service from the City of San Francisco. Recording opens and closes with music from World War One.
Newton Diehl Baker, U.S. Secretary of War, gives a speech entitled, "Americas choice and opportunity," in which he speaks on what may happen at the end of World War I during peace time.