The US Army and the Rehabilitation of Wounded Soldiers
In 1890, half of the US Government’s budget was devoted to disability pensions for Civil War veterans. This enormous financial burden combined with medical advances led to a different approach when it...
7 Sep 202320min
Portugal and the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in WWI
Between 1914-1916, Portugal walked a delicate line. While actively engaged in an undeclared war with Germany in Africa, Portugal was not a combatant in Europe, nor did it officially declare neutrality...
2 Aug 202339min
Patriot Priests: French Priests in the French Army
When WWI began in 1914, Catholic priests were virtual pariahs in France. This was the result of a trend towards anti-clericalism that began with the French Revolution and continued in fits and starts ...
2 Juli 202336min
Identifying a World War I Unknown Soldier
On Feb. 8, 2022, a local undertaker was digging a grave in the cemetery at Villers-sur-Fère, a small village in northeastern France near the Ourcq River, where the U.S. Army’s 42d Infantry Division pu...
6 Juni 202320min
Sgt. York and the Other Sixteen
On October 8, 1918, seventeen American soldiers of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division flanked a German machine gun nest, surprising and capturing dozens of German soldiers. Acting...
3 Juni 202333min
The Order of Prince Danilo I
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby tells the novel’s narrator about his World War I military service and a particularly heroic engagement in the Argonne Forest. He ends his story by...
4 Maj 202345min
Ottoman and Turkish Perspectives on Gallipoli
The Battle of Gallipoli was fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula from February 19, 1915 to January 9, 1916. The Entente Powers hoped to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war by seizing control of the D...
21 Apr 202345min
Woodrow Wilson and Women's Suffrage
When WWI broke out in 1914, women in eight states – mostly in the west – had the right to vote. Women in the other 40 states that made up the US at that time did not have the right to vote. America’s ...
15 Mars 202332min
