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The History and Future of Veterans Day
Americans over the age of 75 might remember when November 11 was called “Armistice Day,” commemorating the ceasefire on the Western Front of World War I. The Armistice agreement signed between Britain and France on [...]
Serpents of War: An American Officer’s Story of World War I Combat and Captivity
Harry Parkin (1880–1946) was born into a well-to-do Pittsburgh family. He was a product of the prewar Plattsburgh training camp as well as the April 1917 Fort Niagara Officers Training Camp. Commissioned a captain, Parkin [...]
Veterans Day began after World War I as Armistice Day, with real hopes for an enduring American peace
Just over a century ago, on the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month (Nov. 11, 1918), formal hostilities ended in the First World War when an armistice with Germany went into [...]
Eyewitness: Capt. George W. Hamilton, USMC, on the Capture of Hill 142 During the Battle of Belleau Wood
Editor's Note: Capt. Hamilton was the on-the-scene commander of the Marine companies of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, charged on 6 June 1918 with the capture of Hill 142 overlooking right flank of the attacking French [...]
They Call us the Flying Circus: Two West Virginians in the Great War.
Parkersburg, West Virginia―where is that? That was my first thought when I started unbundling the letters. Over and over again, I saw that address scrawled across on the faded, discolored envelopes tucked away in the [...]
How Were Propaganda Posters Used in World War 1?
The Growth of Propaganda Propaganda was being used long before the outbreak of World War One, but the use of posters, rather than handbills, was pioneered during the war. Almost from the outset, the British government, [...]
Latin American Neutrality During the First World War
Latin-America's Participation in the First World War In recent decades, historians have expressed a newfound interest in reexamining the role of non-European countries in World War I, as well as the contributions that these nations [...]
I am the Daughter of a WWI Regimental Sergeant Bugler
My father, Henry Erwin Bridges, born in 1896, served as a Regimental Sergeant Bugler in World War I and survived “The Great War.” Drafted in 1917 among millions of American soldiers, he arrived in France [...]
Arlington Cemetery once held soil from the World War I battlefields of France
I am reaching out to you regarding the seven World War I sacred soil stones, six in France and one in the United States. A friend from my hometown in Vendée, France, was on vacation [...]
