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War and Evolution: The 20 Ways World War I Reshaped the United States
You’ve probably studied World War I, but have you ever considered how it truly revolutionized the US? It wasn’t just about politics and economics; society, technology, and even gender roles were dramatically transformed. Let’s delve [...]
How America’s Love For Baseball Shaped The Grenades Developed For US Troops During World War I
The United States military entered World War I in the spring of 1917. It quickly became clear that American doughboys were ill-equipped for fighting in the trenches of Europe. One crucial tool they lacked was [...]
Memorial Park’s history as site of 1917 Houston Mutiny commemorated in new exhibit
A new historical exhibit coming to Memorial Park will commemorate the anniversary of the 1917 Houston Mutiny and Riots, a World War I-era event that took place prior to the park's establishment when it was [...]
Swashbuckling World War I correspondent launched his reporting career in Minneapolis
Floyd Gibbons blossomed into one of America's most colorful newspaper reporters in the early 1900s — but only after getting off to a rocky start in Minneapolis. Graduating from Minneapolis Central High School in 1904, [...]
The American Woman Who Reported on Japan’s Entry Into World War I
Journalist Eliza Scidmore was also the visionary behind Washington, DC’s famous cherry trees. Eliza Scidmore, an American journalist and travel writer, was in Yokohama in the summer of 1914 when World War I broke out. [...]
Has the U.S. Ever Fought On Russian Soil? You’d Be surprised.
The story of how American troops battled Lenin’s soldiers in northern Russia may be missing from most history books—but the forgotten conflict still influences relations between nations to this day. Then he left Michigan in [...]
World War Wednesday: Ice Cream and Hospital Ships (1918)
Ice Cream, the Navy, and World War I I've been getting a lot of calls for information about ice cream lately, and that has sent me down a rabbit hole. I did a whole talk [...]
What the Doughboy Really Carried In World War One
Imagine you’re a twenty to-year-old 2nd L.T. in the U.S. Army. You joined the American Expeditionary Force in Europe in 1917. The Great War is raging on. You have an infantry platoon to lead, so [...]
The American Sculptor Who Rebuilt Faceless Veterans
During World War I, Anna Coleman Ladd – born 145 years ago this month – moved to Paris and made masks for men whose physical identities had been ripped apart by the conflict. Thanks to [...]
