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The Last Man to Die in World War I
World War I ended precisely on the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month of 1918. At the moment the bells struck and the guns went silent, a body fell in a French village. Henry [...]
The US Waiting to Enter WWI
July 1914 was the start of the first war that swept across Europe and reached across the ocean. April 1917 the United States entered te war. Nearly three years had passed before the war pulled [...]
Philadelphia’s Little Italy Responds to Its Motherland’s Declaration of War in 1915
By May 1915, anticipation and apprehension had visibly increased within the Italian colony of Philadelphia. As the Chamber of Deputies in Rome deliberated the decision that would bring their nation to war, Philadelphia’s Italians gathered [...]
Did you know? The first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize is from Illinois, and served in World War I?
Jane Addams was a loud and outspoken opponent to World War I. “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common [...]
Story of South Dakota WWI Private Written by Mount Marty University Professor Airs on National TV
YANKTON, SD — A widespread lack of understanding around the global impact of World War I and life at the time in rural South Dakota inspired Mount Marty University (MMU) history professor, Dr. Rich Lofthus, [...]
UALR researchers aid in effort to ID Native Americans who served in WWI; long-overdue medals sought for vets
Sequoyah center working to right a historical wrong Native American soldiers deserving of honors for their World War I service could soon receive those decorations thanks in part to work being done at the University [...]
Lost Histories of the Great War
Veterans Day came earlier this month, a public holiday that under the name of Armistice Day had originally celebrated the end of the First World War, itself then known as the Great War to those [...]
New London Harbors a German Submarine During World War I – Who Knew?
. . . that in the early morning hours of November 17, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Connecticut welcomed the German submarine Deutschland into New London. The Deutschland was one of the first seven U-151 class [...]
Celebrating American Nurses During World War I
I have a special place in my heart for nurses because my mom was a nurse back in the 1980s. She worked in the ER of our local hospital for a while and then became [...]
