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April 7: WWI War Fever Heats Up Hartford
Today in 1917, citizens of Hartford, CT thronged the streets in a mass patriotic meeting to show support for America’s formal entry into World War I. The Great War had been raging in Europe for [...]
The World War I editorial that W.E.B. Du Bois regretted for years
In ‘The Wounded World,’ Chad L. Williams recounts Du Bois’s disillusionment over the war and his struggle to publish a book about Black soldiers’ experiences At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois [...]
The Top 5 Reasons Americans Were Unfit for Military Service During World War I
The Pentagon has been sounding the alarm for years: More and more American males are unfit for military service. The calls for action haven't gone unheard, but the branches of the military are still struggling [...]
Michigan’s important manufacturing role in WWI
Going into World War I, the U.S. was an isolationist nation and not a major military power. But the United States still stood out during the war for one reason: the American system of manufacturing. [...]
AFLCMC Women’s History Month Highlight: World War I
While “Rosie the Riveter” is an icon of World War II and in American women’s history, the opportunities she represented were first made more than two decades earlier—including in World War I aircraft production and [...]
Roles Taken Up By American Women in World War I
(Top Image: "American Telephone girls for 'Hello' duty" by over 26 MILLION views Thanks - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) World War I is known as the first modern war, that is, the first international war to [...]
Your World War I mission: ‘Get the Americans onside to help end the conflict!’
Euronews' Alasdair Sandford tells the story of one British army officer sent to the US in April 1918 to recount his experiences from WWI, part of a drive to raise funds via the 'Liberty Loans' [...]
Captain Peter Carey And The WWI Norcross Rifle Range
I recently came across an article about WWI Norcross Rifle Range that mentions Captain Peter Carey. I was fortunate to communicate with Carey’s son Chris in 2018. Chris Carey shared several documents and photographs of [...]
West Baden Springs Hotel was site of Army General Hospital Number 35 in 1918
Army General Hospital Number 35 A patriotic spirit led business owners to offer their buildings to the War Department for modification into temporary hospitals. These large spaces could be converted much faster than barrack hospitals [...]
