| Version 1.0 Last updated 25 April 2019 Centenary (USA) By Ross Wilson The centenary of the First World War brought greater focus on how the war was remembered across the United States. The conflict is often regarded as “forgotten” within American society, and the advent of the centenary was promoted by federal and state organisations as a means of retrieving it and defining it as the formative point of the “American Century”. This particular process of remembering was at the centre of exhibitions and displays from 2014 onwards and constitutes a modern American memory of the First World War. 1 Introduction 2 The Great War and Modern American Memory 3 Organising Remembrance and Retrieving the Memory of the War 4 Remembering the First World War and the American Century 5 Using the Modern American Memory of the First World War 6 Conclusions Notes Selected Bibliography Citation The centenary of the First World War in the United States was marked by determination at a national and regional level to frame the conflict as a highly significant part of modern American history. One hundred years after the end of a conflict that was characterised by politicians and newspapers in the United States after August 1914 as the “European War,” the First World War was represented to the wider public as a conflict that defined the nation. Institutions, charities and organisations across the Table of Contents Introduction $Centenary (USA) - 1914-1918-Online 1/12