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The Kansas Shoe Repairman Responsible for Veterans Day
The reason we celebrate Veterans Day on November 11 dates back to 1918, when an armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed that essentially ended World War I. The first Armistice Day was [...]
WWI Symposium Unites Historians and Attendees for Day of Learning and Networking
The Inaugural World War I Symposium, presented by the Doughboy Foundation, hosted at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 12, 2025, was a resounding success, establishing itself as a premier [...]
WWI shall never be forgotten
Dedicated in 1921, Liberty Memorial is now our nation’s museum tribute to the Great War While the centennial of the First World War has passed the significance of the conflict has not. The United [...]
American Heart In WWI: A Carnegie Hall Tribute brings America’s World War I story to life
Q&A with Historian John Monsky, Creator and Narrator of AMERICAN HEART IN WWI: A CARNEGIE HALL TRIBUTE Premieres Veterans Day, November 11, on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the PBS app. Powerful storytelling, [...]
“The young grow old quickly here”: Ruth Charlotte Bush, YMCA entertainer.
Ruth Charlotte Bush was born in February 1894 to Civil War veteran Theodore Bush and his wife, Charlotte Ann Arney Bush, in Kentland, IN. She had three sisters—Adah, Marie, and Alice—and writer George Ade was a [...]
The WWI Professor will debut at Verizon Innovative Learning online event Nov. 4
Verizon Innovative Learning Presents “Elevating Innovation: Thinking in an AI World” Virtual Conference We are just days away from the Elevating Innovation Virtual Conference, hosted by Verizon Innovative Learning. The Doughboy Foundation’s colleague and [...]
Four British WWI MIA soldiers found during hospital build in France
Four British soldiers who were killed in World War One will be reburied in northern France later. The remains of Arthur Cook, Robert Cullum, John Fraser and William London, all privates of 1/5 Bn [...]
Lost Battalion Tours: “We put you right where the Doughboys were.”
Have you ever felt drawn to a certain place in this world? A place that seems to call for you, even from thousands of miles away, and you can feel that call in your [...]
Presentation on the service of foreign-born men and woman in U.S. military during WWI scheduled November 16 in Henrico, VA
CW4(ret) Alexander F. Barnes gives a presentation on the service of foreign-born men and woman in the U.S. military during the First World War. It will take place at the Belmont Recreation Center, 1600 [...]
