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Cultural Landscape Foundation awards Cultural Landscape Award for Design to National World War I Memorial
David Rubin/Land Collective selected for prestigious prize The 2026 WLA Professional Awards received over 275 entries across 16 categories from landscape architecture firms worldwide. This year, the jury had a hard time selecting the winners from [...]
America’s first female soldiers served during WWI. Here’s why they were known as ‘Hello Girls.’
World War I began on July 28, 1914, following the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. However, the United States did not officially enter the conflict until April 6, 1917. During The Great War, [...]
Defending the Vologda Railway: The Service of Polar Bear Harold H. Holliday, Company M, 339th Infantry Regiment, North Russian Intervention in WWI
This is a uniform I have had for a while, but it was worth sharing with the world because of something I found in the national archives that really brings this uniform to life. [...]
Tennessee soldier played role in American Punitive Expedition into Mexico prior to World War I
In late March 1916, the 5th Cavalry regiment was sent on an expedition across the Mexican Border due to the continuing threat from revolutionary Pancho Villa. Who, at this point, had led several raids [...]
Brooke Army Medical Center’s award-winning care honors its WWI-era namesake
This year, the Military Health System is celebrating 250 years of America by recognizing military medicine’s enduring history of innovation and impact to the warfighter. Please join the Military Medicine 250 campaign!” Pioneering military doctor [...]
French consulate returns WWI dog tag to Alabama veteran’s family in Atlanta
The Consulate General of France in Atlanta presented Hilliard Chastain’s family with his World War I dog tag on July 13 in celebration of Bastille Day and 250 years of friendship between France and [...]
Renee Messelin, first Black woman soldier to serve overseas, honored at Lincoln Cemetery memorial
A powerful ceremony on Thursday honored World War I veteran Renee Messelin, the first Black woman soldier to serve overseas for the U.S. military. Some connections are instant. Others take a little more time. Carolyn [...]
Most Americans don’t know the country’s only WWI museum is on a Kansas City hilltop
It’s built on $2.5 million in dimes Kansas City sits on something most Americans don’t know exists. Right in the middle of town, on a hilltop near Union Station, a museum tells the full [...]
How the ACS Mobilized American Surgery for WWI—and Why It Matters Today
From its founding, the ACS has maintained close ties with the US military. During its first 5 years as a professional organization, the ACS appointed Navy Surgeon General Charles F. Stokes, MD, FACS, as [...]
