The following list consists of those papers or lectures presented during the centennial in California to educate about WW1. You can check out all of the entries in order by scrolling, or simply jump to a particular writing or talk by clicking on it in the table of contents below.
From This Land to No-Man's-Land - War Like We Have Never Seen, Nor Will Ever See Again! - by Bill Betten
Cryptology, the Secret Battlefield of World War I: Dawn of the Crypto Arms Race - by Ralph Simpson
James Reese Europe: The Carrier of the Most Virulent Germ of the First World War, and All That Jazz - by Bill Betten
Echoes of World War One in the Surgical World - by Thomas L Snyder
And the Flag Was Not There; World War I and the ideal of “Living Memorials” - by Courtland Jindra & Shane Peterson
MEMORIAL DAY – 2018: A speech given at the Montclair Veteran’s Memorial Commemoration - by Bill Betten
‘On the Sacred Soil’: Remembering June 1918 and the U.S. Marines who fought in France by Dr. Darin D. Lenz
The Great War as Civic Engagement: Southern California, 1916-1925 - by Craig Hendricks
1918 War Letters: Deception To Protect the Family, A World War I Case Study - by Dr. Ava F. Kahn
World War I and its Effects on Vera Brittain’s Life - by Judith Carrillo
The Spanish Flu at the University of California, Berkeley: A Case Study - by Americo Prado
For Country or Homeland: The Challenge for German Americans During World War I - By Robert Wells
Armistice Centennial Event Narrative - Hollywood American Legion Post 43 - Nov. 12, 2018 - by Courtland Jindra
Ralph Simpson worked 32 years in the computer industry at IBM and Cisco Systems. He authored Crypto Wars: 2000 Years of Cipher Evolution, and is an avid collector of cipher machines.
Courtland Jindra is one of the Co-Directors of the California WW1 Centennial Task Force. 
Shane Peterson is a graduate of California State University Northridge with a masters in history. His thesis on Natchez, Mississippi in WWI was used by the General Services Administration to correct a Jim Crow era WWI Memorial, and was the subject of a documentary by the GSA. He is rewriting his thesis into a book length manuscript.
Craig Hendricks taught history at Long Beach City College and CSU-Long Beach for three decades. He is the joint author of several textbooks and readers, and is a grants consultant for Southern California school districts. Since 1985 he has provided numerous history presentations, on topics involving historical research and public issues. His current research interests focus on the development of the city and port of Long Beach during the 20th century.
AVA F. KAHN holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She taught at UC Davis, Mills College, and SFSU, served as a the Research Associate at the Western Jewish History Center of the Magnes Museum and as a visiting scholar at the California Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include: Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849–1880 (2002); Jewish Life in the American West: Immigration, Settlement and Community (2002, 2004); Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America's Edge (2010) co-authored with Ellen Eisenberg and William Toll; California Jews (2003, paperback 2011) co-edited with Marc Dollinger; and Transnational Traditions: New Prospectives on American Jewish History (2014) co-edited with Adam Mendelsohn. An article on Kahn's WWI research was published in the American Jewish Archives journal. 
