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40 Photos That Reveal Daily Life Beyond The WWI Trenches
History books give us the grand overview of World War I, with maps of front lines and formal portraits of generals. But what about the regular folks? Life didn't just stop for four years [...]
How a 5-foot porter from Albany became America’s first Black war hero in WWI France
Henry Johnson’s Heroic Stand Against Overwhelming German Forces The Harlem Hellfighters Memorial in New York honors soldiers who fought harder for respect than victory. Henry Johnson was a 5-foot-4-inch railroad porter from Albany who [...]
Silver Star Medal for Lieutenant (nurse) Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius Army Nurse Corps, World War One
In dusty archives of the Montana state library a lone military historian, an Army combat veteran, pieced together a remarkable, unheralded, and compelling story of a courageous young Montana woman: a uniformed World War [...]
There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western Front
The Dream of Walking the Western Front On a late April evening in the spring of 2022, after two long years of the pandemic, the world that had been shut down for so long, [...]
Doughboy MIA for July 2025: Private Winfield Carey
Private Winfield Carey was born on November 26, 1896, in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard on July 9, 1917, and was assigned to Company C, 8th Infantry Regiment. The Pennsylvania [...]
Tara Zahra On Anti-Globalization After WWI
Her book is a fascinating look at the interwar years — with many parallels to today. Tara Zahra is a writer and academic. She’s currently the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History [...]
The Making of “The Intelligence War in Latin America 1914-1922”
How the Book and Website Came to Be To a child, a dented French Adrian helmet, a crusty German pickelhaube, a deformed leather gas mask and a rusty bayonet were enchanting icons. They silently [...]
20 Photos and Facts From World War I
These aren’t just old pictures; they capture raw emotion, moments of quiet strength, and scenes that speak volumes about the human cost of war. Whether it’s a soldier’s worn expression or a glimpse of [...]
Scientists Decode 1918 Flu Virus Genome From Century-Old Tissue
Scientists have decoded the Swiss genome of the 1918 flu virus from a century-old specimen, revealing early adaptations for human infection. Scientists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have successfully decoded the genome [...]
