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Historian chronicles changes to America’s agriculture from WWI through the Cold War
A new book makes the case that farmers in Wisconsin and throughout the Midwest were not bystanders to America’s rise as a world superpower — but key to its ascent in the first half of [...]
Chris Gibbons: A Memorial Day tribute to “Philadelphia’s Own”
On September 21, 1917, a little over five months after the U.S. formally entered World War I, the first 361 recruits for the 315th Infantry Regiment arrived at Camp Meade in Maryland. All of [...]
Happy Memorial Day!! African American Women and WWI
When the U.S. joined the war in 1917, Americans from all walks of life wanted to “do their bit.” This included African American women, who found a variety of ways to support the war [...]
Native Code Talkers Foiled WWI Enemies
Native Code Talkers secured highly sensitive communications with a code that German specialists could not break. Ironically, the U.S. government banned many Native Americans from speaking their language in tribal boarding schools in the [...]
Occupational Therapy Floor Loom assisted WWI Veterans in the postwar rehabilitative process
During World War I and afterwards, the United States provided more than just hospital care for sick and wounded soldiers. Medical authorities also committed to rehabilitating the disabled so they could resume productive lives [...]
Expedition captures the first ever images of the wreck of a World War I submarine
The USS F-1 was lost in 1917 in a collision off of California, killing most of its crew. After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a [...]
Not Completely Unprepared—The U.S. Military before World War I
"America was completely unprepared for the war." You've probably seen some form of this statement in your readings. The statistics seem to fully support this. On 1 April 1917, the U.S. had 5,791 officers [...]
The Long Way to Tipperary From Guanajuato
It was not unusual to hear my father singing or whistling while he worked in his garden at our home in South Central Los Angeles. It wasn’t until I started researching my father’s life [...]
The U.S. Housing Corporation built nearly 300 homes in Bremerton, Wash., during World War I
Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. [...]
