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70Experiencing Memorial Day
Too hot for coffee. Would you like iced tea, or lemonade? Let’s move from the inglenook to the screened-in porch. We can see the peonies and what is left of the iris. There are blossoms on the shrubbery. The air is humid and pungent. If we close...
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80What Became of Carpathia?
Carpathia rescued the survivors of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. But what happened to this vessel afterwards?
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71The Demise of the Weimar Republic
A brief look at the conditions surrounding the fall of the Weimar Republic that aided in the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
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69How Did World War 1 Begin?
This article lists the series of events that led to the start of World War 1.
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64Combat Reporting in the United States: Leading a Nation to Feel, Think, and Act Part 2
As the photograph and its technology improved, so did the vivid images of life and death on the battlefield. Going into World War I, there was not only the need to inform the American populace, but to influence them. America at the time was a...
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81World War 1 History: The Dutch-Belgian Wire of Death
When the Germans controlled most of Belgium in World War One, they had to deal with the Dutch-Belgian border. Thousands of Belgians, spies and smugglers were slipping over to the neutral Netherlands, so the Germans constructed the first major electrified border between the two countries. Up to 3,000 people were electrocuted.
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82World War 1 History: Maria Bochkareva-- Commander of 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death
Maria Bochkareva was the only woman allowed to join a combat unit in the Russian army in 1914 (or any World War One army). This illiterate peasant woman was wounded many times, received many medals, formed and commanded the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death in 1917 and led it into battle.
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73World War 1 History: 1914 Battle of Yser; The Armies Run Out of Room
In October 1914, the armies on the Western Front were running out of room to outflank each other in a war of maneuver. The Germans tried one last time to go around the Allies but the remnants of the Belgian army stood in their way at the Yser River.
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55My great-grandpa: a search for my labor heritage
Searching for my Labor Heritage I sent this email today to a professor whose name I ran across as I searched the internet for a way to find Carlo Tresca's archives in order to find my great-grandfather's writing. Hello Professor Ward, My name is...
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78World War 1 History: The Medium Mark A Whippet Tank
In 1918, the last year of World War I, the British introduced the Medium Mark A Whippet, a light and relatively fast tank armed with four machine guns. It was used to exploit holes in the lines created by its much heavier and slower heavy cousins, the Mark IV and Mark V tanks. During that time, they established themselves as one of the best tanks of the war.
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