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Moving for Education: Living Near WWI Museums and Archives
Relocating for education is an opportunity to enhance your academic and cultural horizons. For history enthusiasts and researchers living near World War I (WWI) museums and archives in the United States offer direct access [...]
Authors, historians, playwrights, and filmmaker urge House Leadership to vote on Hello Girls Congressional Gold Medal legislation
Letters call on Speaker, Majority Leader to being Hello Girls Congressional Gold Medal bill to a House vote. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Well-known American historians, authors, playwrights, and filmmakers who have published works about the [...]
Why A WWI Time Capsule In Missouri Required A Bomb Squad When It Was Opened
So we all know the idea behind a time capsule, right? You take a bunch of junk, stuff it in a box or whatever, maybe bury it in the backyard. And then after you're dead, [...]
Meet the American who invented the hard hat, a proud symbol of our nation’s working class
Hard hats are the team headgear of working-class America — the people who built the United States with their bare hands. The people who still build the USA today. Tip your safety cap to [...]
Christmas in the Trenches on Saturday, December 14 at Midway Village Museum in Rockford, IL
Christmas in the Trenches is a military re-enactment of the 1914 Christmas truce taking place 110 years ago during World War I. Join us on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 10am for Christmas in the [...]
A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy’s death
Two Marines forged a friendship on the battlefields of World War I. One died in combat. Decades later, the survivor’s recorded memories bring a long-delayed closure. They had fought together at Belleau Wood, clawing [...]
WWI plaque rededicated for 10 servicemen from WA
Community members gather at Carlsborg Family Church for ceremony More than 100 years after a monument was placed to honor the “Clallam County boys” who died in World War I, family and community members [...]
Doughboy MIA For November 2024: 2nd Lieutenant Carl Abell Dudley
Carl Abell Dudley Carl Abell Dudley was born in Keene, New Hampshire, on February 27, 1889. He attended Harvard University, where he graduated in the class of 1907-1908. On December 8, 1917, [...]
Chickasaw WWI veteran’s story lives on
The Chickasaw Nation is filled with stories passed down from generation to generation. Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer’s book “Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy” recounts the story of a First American World War I veteran. [...]
