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Sgt. Alvin York: From Blacksmith to Legendary WWI Marksman
Sgt. Alvin York was a United States Army soldier and one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Born in rural Tennessee, Sgt. York had little formal education but was an excellent [...]
Kendall County Circuit Clerk seeks to return unclaimed historic World War I medals to veterans’ families
KENDALL COUNTY, IL -- Kendall County Clerk of the Circuit Court Matthew Prochaska, while digitizing court records from the turn of the 20th century, found a box of unclaimed World War I medals that were [...]
The BAR Through World War I
America’s first light machine gun was yet another design from the man from Ogden. When we see John Moses Browning written out, it is usually followed with such adjectives as genius, iconic, brilliant and innovative, [...]
Military Shotguns: The History of Scatterguns Issued by the U.S.
Winchester’s Model 1897 was one of the first modern U.S. military shotguns to be used in the World Wars. Called a “trench gun,” the Model 97 was a critical weapon American soldiers used to clear [...]
A Rare Atlas of the First World War
On October 27, 2022, the Library of Congress held an event for members of the Philip Lee Phillips Society, the Washington Map Society, and the Friends of the Library of Congress. The event was named [...]
The Unfinished Business of Democracy: Lincoln, Wilson and the Issue of Race
Tuesday, Feb. 21 - Reception 6 p.m., Lecture 7 p.m. Auditorium and YouTube Live Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson are two presidents who led the nation in fighting for a united democracy in wars of unexpected [...]
Frank Woodruff Buckles – Corporal, United States Army
Frank Buckles, who drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918 and came to symbolize a generation of embattled young Americans as the last of the World War I doughboys, died on Sunday, 27 February [...]
“A journey of research & learning that continues to this day”
Like many students of World War I, I took an interest upon learning that a family descendant fought in the Great War. It all began some 50 years ago when as a 12 year old, [...]
How Black WWI Veterans Shaped The Civil Rights Movement
The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and returned home as heroes soon faced many more battles over their equality in American society. While they [...]
