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“No Stone Was Left Unturned”: A Tomb in the Heart of the Nation: The Origins and Creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
US Army book cover graphic by Johnny Chang (contractor), Army National Military Cemeteries. Army National Military Cemeteries (ANMC) is proud to share that its new digital open-access publication, A Tomb in the [...]
A century of the ‘Ma Deuce’: How the M2 Browning became America’s workhorse machine gun
Gen. John J. Pershing requested development of a multipurpose heavy machine gun the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI. We're still using the result today. For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, [...]
Finding the Hello Girls: A Journey of Discovery and Connections
Finding (Auntie) Nemo The seeds that led to my Hello Girls journey were first planted in the fall of 2011. As my son was leaving for college, he suggested in a humorous manner that [...]
Not a Museum, but a Mirror: How one book, one library event and one basketball game revealed the Hello Girls’ living legacy
Like many of you, I grew up with family stories about my grandmother, Marie Edmée LeRoux, who served in World War I. I knew she had gone to France. I knew she had done something [...]
A Primer on Iran’s (Persia’s) Rather Unpleasant World War I Experience
Persia (now Iran) is little known as a theatre of the First World War, but events there influenced global politics in the years following the war. Although Persia declared its neutrality in 1914, it [...]
This WWI soldier saved two men from a burning tank with his bare hands
When the American Expeditionary Forces joined the Allied armies on the Western Front in World War I, there was one condition upon which their commander, Gen. John Pershing, insisted. He wanted the AEF to [...]
Sabin Howard: “His WWI Memorial elevated him from a renowned sculptor to a world-class master.”
Sabin Howard is known by many as “The American Michelangelo.” He’s a master sculptor and modern classicist, best known for A Soldier’s Journey, the 58-foot, 38-figure bronze National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. [...]
Capital Controls: The Evolution of Outbound Investment Security Strategy
U.S. history in restricting outbound investment began during World War I The United States sits in the middle of an interconnected global financial system, and American investors form a significant segment within the bedrock [...]
Wonder why WWI is ‘The Great War’? This Missouri museum has answers
The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Missouri aims to help today's citizens remember and understand the Great War and how it impacted the global community, according to its mission statement. The Liberty Memorial [...]
