Doughboy MIA For August 2023: First Lieutenant Sidney Paul Thompson
A man is only missing if he is forgotten. Awarded [...]
Review: Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
“They roll about,” wrote Brown of his subjects, “gripping at [...]
Fayette County, Ohio’s Last World War I Death in Service
Nearly eight months to the day after Armistice had been [...]
Has the U.S. Ever Fought On Russian Soil? You’d Be surprised.
The story of how American troops battled Lenin’s soldiers in [...]
How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress’s Life Forever
On the one hand, Mrs. Stan Harding Krayl, as she [...]
Veteran seriously wounded during Second Battle of the Marne in World War I
Throughout the years, Mark Weber heard many fascinating tales about [...]
World War Wednesday: Ice Cream and Hospital Ships (1918)
Ice Cream, the Navy, and World War I I've been [...]
What the Doughboy Really Carried In World War One
Imagine you’re a twenty to-year-old 2nd L.T. in the U.S. [...]
The American Sculptor Who Rebuilt Faceless Veterans
During World War I, Anna Coleman Ladd – born 145 [...]
A fallen Doughboy’s well-traveled footlocker
Last spring, I posted a two-part blog about Howard Lee Strohl, an [...]
