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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 [...]
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 [...]
