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Alloways Creek ship graveyard holds hidden WWI history
Alloways Creek ship graveyard is a line of 18 World War I wooden steamships. Located in Salem County, southwestern New Jersey, and flowing into the Delaware River, Alloways Creek meanders for 23.2 miles. The [...]
20 Images and Facts From World War I
World War I is often reduced to a handful of familiar images: soldiers in trenches, enormous artillery pieces, and battlefields covered in mud. The reality was much broader and, in many ways, stranger than [...]
For sale at Richmond marina: One of the last surviving WWI boats. Needs work.
“It’s a big project.” That’s how Matt Harris describes the USS Katie, a wooden boat docked at the Richmond Yacht Basin about 10 miles south of the city. The Katie doesn’t look like much at first [...]
Brighter Days Ahead: The Actions of Harry F. Kelly During the First World War
On April 29th, 1918, the Morris Herald News reported that Mary and Henry Kelly had officially been notified in a telegram that their eldest son, Harry F. Kelly, had been seriously wounded in France. [...]
Getting Those World War I Naval Mutinies Straight
(Note: I'm pretty sure that some of our readers share my difficulty in sorting out the causes of the Russian and two German Naval mutinies of the Great War. Through the miracle of the [...]
Why World War I History Is Hidden in Plain Sight Across Philadelphia
A trunk left behind in a rowhouse attic. A faded ribbon tucked into a family Bible. A bronze plaque half-covered by ivy near a corner store. These are the kinds of things that turn [...]
Remembering the Great War: “I see the scars all over Europe and America, elegantly dressed.”
All summer, I’d find myself faced with WWI memorials. I notice them everywhere & they mean so much to me since, blessedly, the Doughboy Foundation woke me up. It was Dan Dayton who saw me [...]
The Americans Who Flew for France
On a French airfield in 1916, you might have found two lion cubs named Whiskey and Soda padding between the tents, and a group of young Americans who had crossed an ocean to fight [...]
American Dreadnoughts at War
The legendary Great White Fleet, which sailed around the world from December 1907 to February 1909, had many achievements but came up short on one of President Theodore Roosevelt's list of objectives. In the [...]
