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Tester to play Daily Taps at National World War I Memorial
Event will honor legendary female World War I telephone operators, nicknamed the Hello Girls, America's first women soldiers Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and descendants of the U.S. Army “Hello Girls” will participate in a special Daily Taps ceremony on [...]
Best Books on World War I
We have a number of interviews focused on World War I and many more in which particular books on the war are recommended. Covering the state of Europe in the lead up to the World [...]
The A&D Minute: World War I With Drones
With no end in sight, how can defense contractors apply lessons learned from the past two years in Ukraine to best support the Warfighter in 2024 and beyond? February 24, 2024 marked the beginning of [...]
Professor Emeritus Wins Award For Research On The Response To WWI-Era German Language Restrictions
During World War I, South Dakota joined other U.S. states by enacting measures that banned speaking the German language in public spaces. Istvan Gombocz, Ph.D., professor emeritus of German at the University of South Dakota, [...]
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney World War I bronzes at new home in Rhode Island
The Preservation Society of Newport County in Rhode Island recently acquired two Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney World War I bronzes: America at War (a chaotic battle scene) and Blinded (depicting a soldier blinded by poison gas). Whitney, who summered at [...]
Westmoreland community band members will help dedicate World War I memorial in D.C.
Westmoreland County’s five community bands regularly take an annual summer trip together, assembling a group that performs somewhere at their destination. This year, however, it will be delayed a month, so the bands can help [...]
Pioneering D.C. Artist Inez Demonet Helped WWI Soldiers Put Their Lives Back Together
“By days she paints gruesome pictures of the insides of rats so newly dead their bodies still glow faintly with animal heat. By night she does exquisite etchings of a Chinese junk idling down the [...]
Researchers find WWI and WWII bombs in the ground are becoming more volatile
Two ordnance specialists, one with the University of Stavanger's Department of Safety and the other with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, have found that due to their chemical makeup, bombs and other ordnances still in [...]
Sam Lucas’ Funeral and the Approaching War
Sam Lucas was a Black Civil War Veteran, and a popular star of stage and screen. Sam Lucas was born with family and ancestral ties to slavery. His funeral was a fascinating harbinger of World [...]
