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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 [...]
“The Smoke of War”: Margaret “Molly” Brown and World War I
At the outbreak of World War I on the European continent, the United States, at least officially, stood aloof. When Congress issued their declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917, the American military [...]
How World War I Crushed the American Left
Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression. There are few episodes in national history as blithely misunderstood as America’s participation in World War I. In the history-textbook [...]
Veterans Benefits Administration: The Bonus Marchers of 1932
The Veterans Benefits Administration invites you to tune into episode two of VBA’s new video series, VBA History in Focus: 100 Objects. This episode recounts the dramatic story of the thousands of WWI Veterans who [...]
