Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Monday, January 5, 2026

It All Depends on Your Point of View—America's Interest in the War c. 1914

Minnesotan Frank Naughton presents two arguments revealing American interests in seeing the European war continue in his three-panel editorial cartoon, which he drew for the Duluth News Tribune weeks after the war's start.


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Duluth, where immigrants made up more than a quarter of its population, was one of the largest shipping ports in the United States and stood to profit from wartime production.

Source: Library of Congress

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