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The virus that killed WWI young soldiers faster than the Germans at a North Carolina camp
The 1918 Flu Outbreak at Camp Greene Camp Greene rose from nothing in just 90 days during summer 1917. By December, this massive WWI training site held 60,000 young soldiers, nearly doubling Charlotte’s population. [...]
How World War I Reshaped Industrial Cities Like San Francisco and Los Angeles
When we think about the First World War, we often picture European battlefields and diplomatic tensions far from the United States. But the war years also triggered major changes at home, especially in cities [...]
Thanksgiving in wartime meant rationing, sacrifice, and resilient American meals
Thanksgiving has always been a cherished American tradition, a day for families to gather, reflect, and share a meal. Yet during World War I and World War II, the holiday took on an added [...]
World War I created the close relationship between the USDA’s dietary recommendations and the American agricultural industry
How Should Americans Eat? A Timeline of USDA Advice The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was founded in 1862 under Abraham Lincoln. For more than a century, nutritionists at the USDA have issued [...]
World War I Veterans: Wounds, Opioids, and Addiction Treatment
Often regarded as the first modern war, World War I was the first conflict to use machine guns, tanks, planes, and chemical warfare on a mass scale. This, coupled with the international nature of [...]
My Dear Mabel: A book containing the World War I letters written between two patriots from East Tennessee
On Thursday, July 10, 2025, Daily Taps at the National World War I Memorial was sounded in honor of my grandfather, Private Roy Hawk, U.S. Army, Sixth Infantry Division (1918-1919). While watching the bugler [...]
The Military History Hidden Under Today’s Chamblee
This week, on Veterans Day 2025, angling through 5 p.m. Atlanta traffic with my aging vehicle in need of repair, I was attempting to get to the Chamblee dealership before it closed. Credit: [...]
Women’s Work: Honoring All Who Served, from the Hello Girls to Today’s Women Veterans
Generations of American women have shown what it means to serve their country. 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) paying tribute to female soldiers, 2020 (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alexis Washburn-Jasinski, Picryl) [...]
In 1917, during WWI, a German newspaper in Cincinnati was raided by the US government
On Oct. 6, 1917, federal agents raided the offices of the Cincinnati Volksblatt, a German-language newspaper, and confiscated letters, records, newspapers and pamphlets written in German, looking for evidence of sedition or treason. This came six [...]
