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Amid debate about U.S. history, WWI Harlem Hellfighters receive Congressional Gold Medal
The Harlem Hellfighters of the New York National Guard's 369th Infantry Regiment were posthumously honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal. They received the highest civilian honor given by Congress, decades after their [...]
WWI Harlem Hellfighters awarded Congressional Gold Medal
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Sept. 3 to the Harlem Hellfighters, one of the most renowned Black combat units of World War I. Descendants of those soldiers were in [...]
20 World War I Generals Who Changed History
Great wars don’t move themselves; people do. The generals of World War I wrestled with new machines, old doctrines, and millions of lives, learning in public how industrial war actually worked. Some stabilized fronts, some [...]
Harlem Hellfighters, who spent 191 days in the trenches of WWI, get special congressional honors
The Harlem Hellfighters spent more time in continuous front-line combat in World War I than any other similarly sized American regiment — 191 days in the front-line trenches. They suffered more casualties than any [...]
From Spanish-American War to the World War in France – The story about the Swedish Medal of Honor recipient Gustaf Adolf Sundquist
Eva Sofia Kullgren probably knew who the father of her son was, but it is not mentioned in the Swedish church books. Her son, Gustaf Adolf, is noted as illigitimate in the book of [...]
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, [...]
