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After robust debate, U.S. entered World War I
Despite initial mandate to stay neutral, U.S. leaders voted to officially join Allies in the Great War on April 6, 1917 A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. [...]
After nearly 100 years, this WWI soldier received his Medal of Honor
War brings out the best and worst in its participants. One seldom knows what qualities one brings onto the battlefield until a situation arises when that service person has to make a fateful choice. [...]
Reports from the WWI battlefields – A Swedish journalist met the Swedish soldiers
Gunnar met the Swedes in the American Army, when he wrote about his dialogues between him and the soldiers. I have been writing about it before, how digitized newspapers from the Great War era [...]
The location of a WWI-era German U-boat at the bottom of Lake Michigan is a closely guarded secret
Resting beneath the surface of Lake Michigan is a 185-foot German U-boat—an unexpected find, especially since no German submarines ever operated in the Great Lakes during either World War. So how did a U-boat [...]
America was at its Trumpiest 100 years ago. Here’s how to prevent the worst.
During WWI, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.Adam Hochschild is the author of “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.”What was the Trumpiest period of American life before Donald [...]
This is America and the untold story of isolationism
The University of Connecticut’s History Department held their 152nd Foreign Policy Seminar last Friday, March 28. The 152nd speaker was Professor Christopher McKnight Nichols of Ohio State University. His talk was titled “The Untold [...]
Hello From a French Village That Recalls the U.S. as a Staunch Ally
French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I. More than a century [...]
New exhibit at Henderson Library memorializes local African American veterans of World War I
Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating a powerful exhibit titled “More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch County’s African American Fallen Soldiers of the First World War” to honor the [...]
The Black WWI war hero who fought off over 20 German soldiers at once by himself
Henry Johnson received praise from Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama.May 15, 1918 was the most painful day of Henry Johnson’s life. It’s also the day he became a war hero applauded by his fellow soldiers, his community, [...]
