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Today in History - September 12

On September 12, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces under commander in chief General John J. Pershing launched its first major offensive in Europe as an independent army. The U.S.-led attack occurred in the Saint-Mihiel salient, a triangular area of land between Verdun and Nancy occupied by the German army since the fall of 1914. The Saint-Mihiel salient was strategically important as it hindered rail communications between Paris and the eastern sections of the front—eliminating the salient was necessary before the final Allied offensive of the war could begin.

The town square of St. Mihiel, France. Washington, DC: Schutz Group Photographers, 1918. Panoramic Photographs. Prints & Photographs Division
Fortunately for the American forces, the Germans had begun pulling out of the salient two days before the offensive was launched. After an early morning artillery bombardment, U.S. infantry and tanks began the attack on September 12. Resistance was relatively light, and by September 16, this area of France was liberated from German occupation.

“Over the top”; American soldiers answering the bugle call to “charge”. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, cMarch 25, 1918. Stereograph Cards. Prints & Photographs Division
On the afternoon of the first day of the Saint-Mihiel offensive, a chance meeting took place on the battlefield between George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur, two young officers who would go on to achieve greater fame in World War II.

Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware…. Howard Johnson, words, George W. Meyer, music; New York: Leo Feist, 1918. Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922. Music Division
Following the successful purging of the Saint-Mihiel salient, the American forces shifted to a new front to participate in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The combined Allied offensive successfully forced the Germans to retreat. By October, the defeat of the German army was certain. World War I came to an end with the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918.

Tank ploughing its way through a trench and starting toward the German line, during World War I, near Saint Michel, France. Signal Corps; New York City: Committee on Public Information, c1918. National Photo Company Collection. Prints & Photographs Division
The Americans who participated in the liberation of France were deeply shocked to see the devastation suffered by the French civilians, who had lost their homes, their livelihood, and their lives during the war. The compassion of the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces for the French people generated many popular songs such as the example shown below, “The Tale the Church Bell Told.”

In the shattered part of France, In the very heart of France, A soldier from a Yankee shore, Lay dreaming by an old church door, From the belfry in the sky, He thought he heard the old bell sigh:

I was lonely in the steeple, How I missed the birds of spring, Looking down upon my people, It just broke my heart to ring, Through the din of cannon thunder, I could hear the cries of young and old, Someone will answer for this violence, Answer for my silence, That’s the tale the church bell tolled.

The Tale the Church Bell Told…. Bert Grant, music; Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis, words; New York: Waterson-Berlin & Snyder, 1918. World War I Sheet Music. Music Division

Fresnes-en-Woevre, in the St. Mihiel sector where terrific fighting took place. Washington, DC: Schutz Group Photographers, 1918. Panoramic Photographs. Prints & Photographs Division
Learn More
Explore a comprehensive portal to the Library’s extensive holdings on the subject of World War I (1914–1918). The portal is a one-stop destination page for digitized materials related to the war.
The exhibition, Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I, examines the upheaval of world war as Americans confronted it—both at home and abroad.
World War I: A Resource Guide compiles links to digital materials related to World War I such as photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings that are available throughout the Library of Congress website. In addition, it provides links to external websites focusing on World War I and a selected bibliography.
The John J. Pershing Papers contain the diaries, notebooks, and address books of John Joseph Pershing, U.S. army officer and commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
Search the Panoramic Photographs collection on World War to retrieve more than one hundred panoramic photographs of battlefields and military life. Search on St Mihiel to retrieve a number of photographs, several of which are actually dated September 12, 1918.
Search World War I Sheet Music to find over 14,000 pieces of sheet music from the World War I-era, including George M. Cohan’s Over There. Cover illustrations and song lyrics contribute valuable information to our understanding of the popular culture of that time, with themes ranging from politics and patriotism, to racial stereotypes, to sentiments about home and family.
Search the digital collections of sound recordings to listen to some of the songs about the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces. For example, don’t miss “Madelon” (“I’ll Be True to the Whole Regiment”), “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary”, and “Over There”.
Search on World War in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1940 to read veterans’ stories.
Search on World War in American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I to find recordings of speeches on the subject of World War I. The collection includes a thirty-three-second speech by General John J. Pershing, “From the Battlefields of France” recorded on location.
Search for newspaper accounts about the Saint-Mihiel Offensive and World War I in Chronicling America. This site allows you to search and view millions of historic American newspaper pages. There are several topical features highlighting events related to World War I
Read the complete seventy-one-week run of the World War I edition of the newspaper The Stars and Stripes. Published in France by the United States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, the eight-page weekly featured news, poetry, cartoons, and sports coverage.
During the World War I era (1914-18), leading U.S. newspapers took advantage of a new printing technique called rotogravure that produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations. The online collection, Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914 to 1919 includes the Sunday rotogravure sections of the New York Times and the New York Tribune, as well as the book, The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings. The images in this collection document events of World War I and popular American culture of that era.
View films shot during World War I in the motion picture collections. Examples include films showing members of President Theodore Roosevelt’s family who were active in the war effort:
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Attends Women in War Work Congress in Paris, 1918
TR’s Sons’ Regiments During War, 1917-1918
Quentin Roosevelt; Clemenceau and Foch, 1917-1919
H. L. Mencken, Critic of the American “Booboisie”
Writer, editor, philologist, social critic, and Baltimore native H. L. Mencken was born on September 12, 1880. Mencken, who generated a strong literary following in Baltimore during the 1920s and 1930s, was best known for his scathing social commentary, critical support of emerging writers, and for his scholarly understanding of American usage of the English language.

Portrait of H. L. Mencken. Carl Van Vechten, photographer, July 1932. Van Vechten Collection. Prints & Photographs Division
Mencken first reported for the Baltimore Herald, of which he eventually became editor-in-chief, and later for the Baltimore Sun. While with the Sun, he was given his own column, The Free Lance, with which he began to make his name as a writer, cultural critic, and provocateur. He also was hired to write book reviews for a New York monthly magazine, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, of which he ultimately became the co-editor, with the drama critic George Jean Nathan from 1914 to 1923. Mencken left The Smart Set with Nathan to establish the American Mercury in 1924.

Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Md. William Henry Jackson, photographer, c1903. Detroit Publishing Company. Prints & Photographs Division
Literary criticism enjoyed something of a heyday during the first half of the twentieth century, and Mencken was one of its most forceful practitioners. As a literary critic, he lent critical support to the fiction of Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, and others.

Mencken’s popularity waned in the 1930s during the Great Depression and resulting New Deal efforts to salvage the U.S. economy, although he remained an active, irreverent, and prolific writer. His reputation recovered somewhat in the 1940s, with the publication of a series of memoirs. Thirty-five years after Mencken’s death in 1956, in accordance with the terms of his will, a number of the author’s unpublished works were published, bringing him back to contemporary notice.

In 1919, Mencken published the first edition of his major contribution to philology, The American Language, in which he attempted to analyze the words and phrases, expressions, idioms, and peculiarities of pronunciation and spelling that might be termed “Americanisms” – manifestations of the English language that were uniquely “American.” Mencken revised this seminal work several times throughout his lifetime. This scholarly study, enlivened by Mencken’s particular wit, remains a classic in its field. Mencken coined the term “b**boisie” —a combination of the words b**b and bourgeoisie–by which he meant the ignorant and uncultured middle class.

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Today in History - September 12 Saint-Mihiel Offensive | H. L. Mencken, Critic of the American “Booboisie”

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The National Library of the Philippines proudly congratulates the new roster of professional librarians. 🎉 376 out of 771 passed the licensure examination given by the PRC Board for Librarians last September 10 and 11, 2024. List of successful examinees can be accessed through this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dntRlbiTb3hHHPvzTaYgyg6mU5Q9HV5t/view

We are also thrilled to share that seven of the topnotchers, along with 263 other successful LLE passers, participated in the online mock exams facilitated by the National Library of the Philippines. These mock exams were part of our ongoing efforts to support aspiring librarians by providing them with the tools and resources to prepare for the licensure exam.

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Events of the Day
What happened on the morning of September 11, 2001?

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists associated with al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, hijacked four commercial airplanes scheduled to fly from the East Coast to California. In a coordinated attack that turned the planes into weapons, the terrorists intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, a global business complex in New York City, causing the towers to collapse. They also flew a third plane into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, in Arlington, Virginia. Passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack, forcing the hijacker pilot—who was flying the airplane toward Washington, D.C.—to crash the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.

The 9/11 attacks killed 2,977 people. This was the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil. The attacks caused the deaths of 441 first responders, the greatest loss of emergency responders on a single day in American history.

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September is Su***de Prevention Month, a vital time to raise awareness and foster open conversations about mental health. Let’s remember those we’ve lost, and support those who are struggling by encouraging dialogue and sharing resources. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please reach out for help to someone who can help. Together, we can create a community where everyone feels safe to talk about their feelings and seek support, reminding each other that no one is alone in this journey. 😌







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"Everyday History"

On September 3, 1945, President Sergio Osmeña, Sr. delivered the following message to General Douglas MacArthur on the occasion of Japan's surrender, which effectively ended the Second World War in the Pacific Theater:

"Eighteen million Filipinos join me in sending you our heartfelt blessing at this moment of final victory. Even in our darkest hour our faith in you and America stood firm. Now that the battle has been won, your name will forever be emblazoned in our hearts as a symbol of the American spirit."

On the same day, Osmeña in his magnanimity issued Executive Order No. 65, s. 1945, providing for the provisional release on bail of political prisoners through the Office of the Solicitor General. However, if the investigation should result in the filing of a criminal action against the person released on bail, the Solicitor General shall transmit the bail, together with such other pertinent information, to the court for such action as it may deem proper to take thereon.

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May this special day bring you joy, relaxation, and wonderful memories. Here’s to another year of inspiring and guiding us toward greatness!

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