The Tom Woods Show, episode 884.

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It's 100 years to the day since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to go to war against Germany, and that launched

U.S. involvement in World War I. That was two days after the Senate voted to declare war.

So it's early April 1917, so 100 years have passed, and I thought that was a good time

to bring back our old friend Hunt Tully

to talk about this. Hunt is the author of the book you must read on this subject, called

The Great War, Western Front and Home Front. Hunt holds a PhD in history from the University

of Virginia, and he is a professor of history and chairman of the history department at Austin College

in Sherman, Texas. Hunt, welcome back to the show. Hi, Tom. Great to be here. Thanks.

This particular episode is being released on April 6th, 2017, which is the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of War passed by Congress that got the United

States into World War I. How about that? I managed to coordinate that. I knew it was April

sometime. I got you on here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really, it's very interesting. And of course,

it's how quaint it is that there was a declaration of war and they followed the steps and all that.

I want to tell people, I'm a big, big fan of your book, The Great War.

So before we get into this, let's make sure everybody understands.

So this year, 1917, or 2017, it's the 100th anniversary from 1917.

2017 is the year of World War I studies for Americans, because it's 100 years since this really momentous decision.

A lot of people are going to be commenting on it, thinking about it, and you're going to wish you knew more about it.

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