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Photographic treasure: Exhibit to feature WWI photos from newly discovered negatives
Molly Millie Anderson noticed the plain black box. It was at an Omaha auction, just two blocks from where the previous owner had lived. Anderson, a history buff and former Fremonter, opened the box and [...]
Family of WWI soldier gets his Purple Heart – a century later
Sharecroppers, pastors and sawmill workers from South Carolina who’d been drafted into the Army and shaped into soldiers were at the bottom of Hill 188. German machine guns and troops were entrenched at the top. [...]
“Today’s war writers owed a debt not only to the service of WWI soldiers but also to the unprecedented way they wrote about the war.”
My just-released book, Beyond Their Limits of Longing: Contemporary Writers and Veterans on the Lingering Stories of WWI, is informed and inspired by “The WWrite Blog. Exploring WWI’s Influence on Contemporary Writing and Scholarship,” a [...]
Cornell University honors World War I veterans at at Lyon and McFaddin Halls
The War Memorial on West Campus was dedicated in 1932 and commemorates Cornell’s 264 casualties during World War I. The dedication of the memorial was held on the fourteenth anniversary of the first appearance of [...]
Honoring Norwalk, CT World War I women
On the base of the cannon at Norwalk Town Green, in an inconspicuous corner on one of the plaques, is a short list of women who served in WWI. They were nurses with the Army [...]
World War I Classic Returns: Smith & Wesson Model 1917 .45 ACP
As a general rule double action revolvers don’t have the historical aura around them, as do ones like the S&W Model No. 3 “Schofield” single action or the Colt Model 1911 autoloader. One exception to [...]
Looking at Washington, D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial, through the eyes of a sculptor
Sabin Howard, a world-renowned figurative sculptor, is working on an epic WWI sculpture for a Washington DC monument in his Englewood, NJ studio. The Lincoln Memorial is a shrine, a symbol, a portrait of a [...]
Wreaths Across America in Devine, TX December 17
Recognizing those who served abroad in WWI and later, and reflecting on the effects on citizens at home One might imagine that many of today’s young people, and perhaps not so young, don’t fully understand [...]
Gov. Justice, WVDOH celebrate opening of westbound lanes on new Nitro World War I Memorial Bridge
CHARLESTON, WV – Gov. Jim Justice today announced the opening of the new Nitro World War I Memorial Bridge on Interstate 64. The bridge, being built alongside the Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge, carries I-64 [...]
