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‘The Hello Girls’ tunefully honors America’s first female soldiers at Syracuse Stage
In 1918, under the order of General John J. Pershing, the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit sailed for France to run switchboard operations on the frontlines during the twilight of the First World War.Nearly [...]
Silver Star Medal for Lieutenant (nurse) Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius Army Nurse Corps, World War One
In dusty archives of the Montana state library a lone military historian, an Army combat veteran, pieced together a remarkable, unheralded, and compelling story of a courageous young Montana woman: a uniformed World War [...]
There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western Front
The Dream of Walking the Western Front On a late April evening in the spring of 2022, after two long years of the pandemic, the world that had been shut down for so long, [...]
A Century of Peace, Purpose, and Preservation
On Saturday, July 12, I had the honor of commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bladensburg WWI Memorial — better known as the Peace Cross and owned by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning [...]
Imperial Germany’s turn-of-the-century plan to invade the United States
Long before WWI erupted, the German General Staff set to work on a plan to invade and possibly even conquer the United States Germany invading the United States might sound crazy by today’s standards, [...]
50 facts about WWI only true history buffs know
A timeline of WWI, the first global conflict The devastation and scope of destruction brought about by World War I was unlike anything humanity had seen before. Known initially as the Great War, the [...]
Using Technology to Teach (and learn) WWI
An upcoming presentation at the inaugural World War I Symposium 9/12/2025 On September 12, 2025, I’ll have the privilege of joining a group of wonderful speakers at the Inaugural World War I Symposium, held in [...]
Laurel & Hardy: The WWI M1917 of ‘Pack Up Your Troubles’
United States of America (1932) Real Prop Tank – 1 Used When one thinks of tanks, one may not instantly think of Laurel and Hardy, the legendary comedy duo of the silver screen. Nonetheless, [...]
Not just the Western Front: “Ring of Fire” rediscovers WWI’s global story
"Now Europe is a ring of fire,” the Russian poet Zinaida Gippius wrote in 1914, not long after her country declared war on Austria-Hungary. Soon afterward, Germany, France, and Great Britain would enter the [...]
