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Albert Grass: WWI Lakota Code Talker gets bridge named in his Honor
My name is Timothy Hunts-in-Winter, an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who resides in Arizona. I’m just a guy who began researching my family's WWI soldiers and my tribemates’ soldiers almost 3 [...]
The Boys of Yarmouth In World War I
In June, 1917, Albert Chase of West Yarmouth left home for the bloody battlefields of France. Chase was one of 35 young men from Old Mattacheese who volunteered in World War One, and miraculously, all [...]
Alaska History Day Project introduces us to The Hello Girls
“Hey, what rhymes with ‘experts’?” “Flirts - squirts - skirts?” “Yes, that’s it! Skirts!” “We have made history Helped the Allies secure victory We are experts; we’re wearing blue skirts And we did our bit [...]
J.P. Morgan’s Efforts to Push the U.S. Into WWI
During the Nye committee of 1930s, Congress investigated the influence of financial interests on the decision for the United States to enter World War I. Headed by Senator Gerald Nye from North Dakota, it delved into [...]
Quentin Roosevelt: The Only Son Of A US President To Die In Combat Was A Fearless WWI Fighter Pilot
Many U.S. Presidents have served in the military, but only one lost a son in combat. That was Quentin Roosevelt, WWI aviator, son of Teddy Roosevelt. SUMMARY Only two former US Presidents served as military [...]
This WWI ‘Hello Girl’ has been denied a proper goodbye for decades
Marie Edmee LeRoux, buried in an unmarked grave in Prince George’s County, will finally get a headstone. Now Congress needs to give her a medal. An unmarked patch of dirt and grass in a Maryland [...]
Stabilizing Democracy: The World Wars and Women’s Suffrage
Wars unleash forces that are difficult to predict or control. World War I and World War II were both periods of crisis and change, and in the case of the United States and Japan, this [...]
And You Have My Axe: The American Lumberjacks Of World War I
Tactics win battles, but logistics win wars. It’s tough to argue that the United States military doesn’t have the best logistics in the world – two world wars proved that Americans can get you what [...]
French Cross at Brooklyn National Cemetery
After World War I, regulations were updated to formalize burials of allied foreign nationals in U.S. national cemeteries French Cross at Brooklyn National Cemetery in New York. The granite monument was installed at the [...]
