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World War I Enemies Played Football During A Christmas Truce – Except Maybe They Didn’t
Evidence casts suspicion on a famous Christmas Truce story and several monuments. Over the Christmas period in 1914, fraternization took place in No Man’s Land between British and German soldiers at St. Yvon in Belgium. [...]
In World War I, France started to build a fake Paris to confuse German bombers
Just after noon on August 30, 1914, about a month into World War I, a biplane marked with the German iron cross under its wings flew 6,000 feet above France’s capital city. Soon, to the [...]
The Great War Atrocity That Changed War Crimes Prosecutions Forever
I first encountered the story of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship (HMHS) Llandovery Castle while doing online research about the First World War. I came across a reference to the Leipzig War Crimes Trials—the forgotten attempt [...]
“Trench Talk, Trench Life”: The Origins of a Book
I’m thinking of my hometown of Cohoes, in up-state New York. I was in third-grade, on November 11, on the day then called Armistice Day, when my teacher Miss Golden made a statement that was [...]
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials Now Out in Paperback
Friend of the Doughboy Foundation, historian Allison S. Finkelstein, is excited to share with our readers that her book is now available in paperback. Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 investigates [...]
Eugene Bullard, pioneering African-American aviator who flew for France in World War I
The first African-American combat pilot flew not for his country, but for France. Born in the segregated south of the United States at the turn of the 20th century, Eugene Bullard moved to Paris and [...]
The Forgotten African-American Regiments of World War I
Over 380,000 African-American troops served in World War One according to the US National Archives. Here, Chris Fray looks at the role the Black Americans played in the war in the context of the time. [...]
The trauma and slaughter of World War I is examined in a new LACMA show
World War I is something of a blank spot amid the general American habit of forgetfulness. The epic bloodbath has almost disappeared down the memory hole. It returns now as the focus of an exhibition [...]
The Secret Plot To Bring America Into World War I
As WWI raged, both the Entente and the Central Powers knew that the US joining the war could prove decisive. Uncover the covert battle between the two sides, as one tried to bring the US [...]
