Featured Articles
The Santa Claus Ship of WWI is needed again
Author Lilian Bell had a wonderful idea for Christmas. The year was 1914 and she could not stop thinking of the suffering children in Europe as World War One raged. She had to help them. [...]
Arsenal of Democracy: A History of RIA from WWI to WWII
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – The Spanish-American War, and the subsequent Philippine-American War was Rock Island Arsenal’s baptism of fire. These engagements transformed the post from a sleepy backwater to a modern 20th Century arsenal. [...]
The Battle of Nauset Beach — Inside the Little-Known 1918 German Bombardment of Cape Cod
THE U.S. ENTERED the First World War on April 6, 1917, but the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) did not begin operations in France until July. A year later—although it is now mostly forgotten—the U.S. state of [...]
The Forgotten Incident That Helped Suck The US Into WWI
Not the Zimmermann telegram or the Lusitania There are two big misconceptions surrounding the United States’ entry into the Great War. First, most people believe that the United States was truly neutral during the first [...]
Shared memories of few comments piece together WWI experience
Oliver H. Oswald shared little about his wartime experience with his family and friends after he came and settled on a farm in Muscotah. Oliver’s son, Floyd Oswald said what little he knows about his [...]
Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers
The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history. It involved as many as 30,000 mostly unemployed veterans who converged on Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand an [...]
After a false alarm, Syracuse can finally celebrate the end of World War I
Around 10 o’clock in the morning on November 7, 1918 a beleaguered and exhausted Mayor Walter Stone authorized the ringing of the fire bell in the tower of City Hall to herald the end of [...]
US sexually ‘teased’ its troops in the First World War to make them fight harder, historian claims
The United States Government sought to sexually stimulate then frustrate its soldiers to prepare them for an unpopular conflict in Europe, a Cambridge historian argues. Recruiting attractive canteen staff; inviting female civilians to closely supervised [...]
NCSC Reveals the Newest Exhibit in Its Digital Wall of Spies: WWI Espionage in the USA
A new digital exhibit unveiled by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) highlights a lesser-known aspect of World War I (WWI) – the sabotage and espionage campaign carried out in the United States by [...]
