{"id":6586,"date":"2017-04-06T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/06\/greenville-turned-into-war-machine-100-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:22","slug":"greenville-turned-into-war-machine-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenville-turned-into-war-machine-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville turned into &#8216;war machine&#8217; 100 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hyde of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2017\/04\/05\/greenville-turned-into-war-machine-100-years-ago\/100073348\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/em><\/a> caught up with Furman History Professor Courtney Tollison who is writing a book on Greenville&#8217;s involvement in World War I. \u00a0Hyde writes the piece on the 100th anniversary of the United States declaration of war on Germany. Much of Tollison&#8217;s research centers on\u00a0Camp Sevier, which trained 100,000 men at a time when Greenville&#8217;s entire population was 77,000. With many of the recruits bringing families to Greenville, the camp spurred patriotism, bred whole new industries and businesses, and ignited an economic boom for\u00a0the region.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison is the curator of the exhibition, \u201cOver Here, Over There: Greenville in the Great War,\u201d on the second floor of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University. The exhibition, continuing through May 31, is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Hyde of The Greenville News caught up with Furman History Professor Courtney Tollison who is writing a book on Greenville&#8217;s involvement in World War I. \u00a0Hyde writes the piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}