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The ‘Hello Girls’ Arrived In Europe Before The First Doughboys. Here’s Why They Were So Crucial
It took more than half a century for the women to be recognized as veterans. Elizabeth Cobbs. (Randy Glass Studio) With her book The Hello Girls and a follow-up documentary film, historian, commentator [...]
The National World War I Memorial: “an important addition to our inventory of monuments and is long overdue”
The National World War I Memorial is located just east of the White House in Washington, DC, at Pennsylvania Ave and 14th Street. It is immediately across the street from the Treasury Department and, on [...]
A Name not found on the Wall of Honor: A Forgotten Story of World War I Sacrifice
Four years ago I wrote an article on Ohio Counties Memorializing their World War I deaths in service. While I was reading period newspapers to research the local World War I deaths in service I [...]
The Battle of the Skirt
How Flappers and World War I Transformed the Fashion Industry I can show my shoulders, I can show my knees; I’m a free-born American And can show what I please. *** On August 23, 1923, [...]
Meet the American who inspired American Legion Baseball, John Griffith, WWI vet and sports pioneer
John Griffith inspired the creation of American Legion Baseball from coast to coast — here is his home-run story Major John Griffith envisioned a nation made better, healthier and stronger — more powerful and patriotic — and [...]
World War I history exhibit at Greater Parkersburg, WV CVB
PARKERSBURG — The Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau is hosting a new World War I exhibit focused on two Parkersburg residents who lived and served in the Great War during the turbulent years of [...]
US to destroy last chemical weapons, closing a deadly chapter dating to WWI
Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot are close to destroying rockets filled with GB nerve agent that are the last of the United States' declared chemical weapons and completing a decadeslong campaign At a [...]
WWI memorial plans unveiled in time for July 4 in DeKalb
Progress on new DeKalb veterans WWI brick memorial unveiled in time for July 4, final completion set for Nov. 11 Organizers behind a new brick memorial tucked near the Veterans Memorial at the ELKS Lodge [...]
The Old Man and War
Ernest Hemingway's wartime service in WWI and beyond Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, whose adventurous lifestyle and world-famous literary oeuvre both captured the public’s imagination as [...]
