During WWI, Missouri’s Home Guard filled in for the National Guard
The Great War depleted the states’ National Guard troops, sending [...]
America’s WWI Commission on Training Camp Activities
Founding the Commission The idea for the Commission for Training [...]
American Failure: WWI Combat Aircraft Production
The United States did not produce any aircraft of its [...]
Philadelphia’s Little Italy Responds to Its Motherland’s Declaration of War in 1915
By May 1915, anticipation and apprehension had visibly increased within [...]
The Santa Claus Ship of WWI is needed again
Author Lilian Bell had a wonderful idea for Christmas. The [...]
Arsenal of Democracy: A History of RIA from WWI to WWII
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – The Spanish-American War, and the [...]
The Battle of Nauset Beach — Inside the Little-Known 1918 German Bombardment of Cape Cod
THE U.S. ENTERED the First World War on April 6, 1917, [...]
The Forgotten Incident That Helped Suck The US Into WWI
Not the Zimmermann telegram or the Lusitania There are two [...]
Shared memories of few comments piece together WWI experience
Oliver H. Oswald shared little about his wartime experience with [...]
Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers
The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American [...]
