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Doughboy from Philomath honored 105 years after ultimate sacrifice in World War I
Homer Armstrong, who was killed in action July 31, 1918, on the Western Front, receives recognition from the Doughboy Foundation during Daily Taps ceremony in Washington, D.C. Back in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson maintained a [...]
Crossword Puzzles functioned as a much-needed bit of escapism during World War I
Can You Solve the World’s First Crossword Puzzle? Crossword puzzlers everywhere owe their thanks to Arthur Wynne, who in 1913 created what’s often cited as the world’s first crossword puzzle. There are a few notable differences between [...]
U.S.-designed Lewis Gun Made Brits Formidable Foe in World War I
Isaac Newton Lewis showed his machine gun design to several United States ordnance officers and the Secretary of War by 1912, but received no interest from the American military. His military. By then a colonel [...]
World War Wednesday: Ice Cream and Hospital Ships (1918)
Ice Cream, the Navy, and World War I I've been getting a lot of calls for information about ice cream lately, and that has sent me down a rabbit hole. I did a whole talk [...]
Her stories make history: ‘The Hello Girls’ greets harsh realities head-on at Taproot
PLAY REVIEW: ‘The Hello Girls’ | Directed by Karen Lund | Music and lyrics by Peter Mills, book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel Taproot Theatre’s new production of “The Hello Girls” is a much [...]
What the Doughboy Really Carried In World War One
Imagine you’re a twenty to-year-old 2nd L.T. in the U.S. Army. You joined the American Expeditionary Force in Europe in 1917. The Great War is raging on. You have an infantry platoon to lead, so [...]
Jari Villanueva Appointed As New Executive Director Of The Doughboy Foundation
The Doughboy Foundation, which supports programs, projects and activities that educate the public about America’s participation in World War I, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jari Villanueva as the new Executive Director. Villanueva [...]
The American Sculptor Who Rebuilt Faceless Veterans
During World War I, Anna Coleman Ladd – born 145 years ago this month – moved to Paris and made masks for men whose physical identities had been ripped apart by the conflict. Thanks to [...]
A fallen Doughboy’s well-traveled footlocker
Last spring, I posted a two-part blog about Howard Lee Strohl, an Army officer who was killed in France in the First World War. A nice surprise followed. I heard from his great-niece, a researcher of her [...]
