HOUGHTON — The First World War marks the first modern “total war.” As millions of combatants were called to the battlefield, massive and rapid mobilization required civilians to reorganize their daily lives to wartime. Though less recognized, rural communities, such as the Copper Country, were integral to the war effort on the home front.

A new exhibit “World War I and Copper Country Home Front, 1917-1918 opens Tuesday at the Carnegie Museum in downtown Houghton. To open the exhibit, there will be a public reception on Veterans Day, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

In April 1917, when the United States entered the war, Americans were soon overwhelmed by unrelenting government propaganda campaigns that pressured all residents to “Do Your Bit.” Over the next year and a half, as over 4,500 local men vo

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