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As men left civilian and military clerical jobs for overseas duty, demand for women to fill these positions increased. Women worked as stenographers for the government and the armed forces. In this poster, Washington’s need for more stenographers is…

One way women served during the war was by staffing YMCA canteens. These sites near the war front were a refuge for soldiers, offering amusement and services like post offices, libraries, and general stores. Elisabeth Gilman, daughter of founding…

These pages depict the ROTC, a new group growing in stature on campus as the possibility of the US entering the war grew stronger. View the entire 1917 Hullabaloo yearbook.

The 1918 Hullabaloo yearbook shows how the war has transformed life at Hopkins. View the entire 1918 yearbook.

By 1919, the war's impact on Hopkins is reflected in this page listing Hopkins men killed in service. View the entire 1919 yearbook.

This memo shows the university’s commitment to accept 708 SATC students on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses.

The Student Army Training Corps program was short lived on the Hopkins campus. Students had been on campus for less than two months when the War Department issued this memo calling for commanding officers to discharge all students in the program.

Students at rest in their barracks, a converted classroom in a Johns Hopkins University building.

A group of Student Army Training Corps cadets gathered in their barracks, a converted Johns Hopkins University classroom.

Elisabeth Gilman wrote this account of her work in a Paris Y.M.C.A. canteen after she had been there for ten weeks. She describes the soldiers, her regular duties, and the canteen she helped to run.