Visitors to the Cleveland History Center in University Circle can learn about Cleveland during WWI in the Center’s central exhibition Cleveland Starts Here®. During this centennial year of the War’s end, the CHC offers visitors the opportunity to take a closer look at the time period in a new exhibition called “A City Worth Fighting For.”

“A City Worth Fighting For” explores Cleveland’s role in WWI and the contributions of its businesses and citizens through four galleries of rarely displayed artifacts from the Western Reserve Historical Society’s military and art collections. One of the galleries contains the photographic exhibit “War & Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures” and a display that tells the stories of two Italian American soldiers.