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From WWI to the NSA: A Century of U.S. Surveillance
How State Surveillance Born in World War I Evolved into Today’s Digital Monitoring World War I created the legal and cultural toolkit that still guides U.S. surveillance. Congress and agencies built powers for secrecy, [...]
How a 5-foot porter from Albany became America’s first Black war hero in WWI France
Henry Johnson’s Heroic Stand Against Overwhelming German Forces The Harlem Hellfighters Memorial in New York honors soldiers who fought harder for respect than victory. Henry Johnson was a 5-foot-4-inch railroad porter from Albany who [...]
WWI Films and Documentaries Worth Watching
The First World War was a conflict unlike any before it — a mix of brutal trench fighting, industrial-scale destruction, and human stories that still echo today. While history books give you the facts, [...]
‘The Hello Girls’ tunefully honors America’s first female soldiers at Syracuse Stage
In 1918, under the order of General John J. Pershing, the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit sailed for France to run switchboard operations on the frontlines during the twilight of the First World War.Nearly [...]
Silver Star Medal for Lieutenant (nurse) Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius Army Nurse Corps, World War One
In dusty archives of the Montana state library a lone military historian, an Army combat veteran, pieced together a remarkable, unheralded, and compelling story of a courageous young Montana woman: a uniformed World War [...]
There Will Come Soft Rains: A Journey Along the Western Front
The Dream of Walking the Western Front On a late April evening in the spring of 2022, after two long years of the pandemic, the world that had been shut down for so long, [...]
A Century of Peace, Purpose, and Preservation
On Saturday, July 12, I had the honor of commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bladensburg WWI Memorial — better known as the Peace Cross and owned by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning [...]
Imperial Germany’s turn-of-the-century plan to invade the United States
Long before WWI erupted, the German General Staff set to work on a plan to invade and possibly even conquer the United States Germany invading the United States might sound crazy by today’s standards, [...]
50 facts about WWI only true history buffs know
A timeline of WWI, the first global conflict The devastation and scope of destruction brought about by World War I was unlike anything humanity had seen before. Known initially as the Great War, the [...]
