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Monday, March 14, 2016

Recommended: Videos from the Historical Aviation Film Unit

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If you enjoy watching the aircraft of the Great War in the air and in all their restored beauty, the videos of the Historical Aviation Fil...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

A Litmus Test War Poet

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In my experience, connoisseurs of World War I poetry either love or detest  A.E. Housman.  [Full disclosure here: I discovered Housman...
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Our Winter Animal Exposition

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Since we have been operating this blog, I've discovered that animal articles and anything from our "Rat Catchers" series mag...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

A Favorite Historical Photograph

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

9 March 1916, Part II: Villa's Raid on Columbus, New Mexico, Sets Off the Punitive Expedition

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One hundred years ago, a bandit, opportunist, political operator, and – in his own way – a Mexican patriot, became part of America's a...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

9 March 1916, Part I: Newton Baker Sworn In as Secretary of War

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By Keith Muchowski A few weeks back we wrote about the resignation of Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war Lindley M. Garrison. Today mark...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France
reviewed by Peter Belmonte

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A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France:  The World War I Diary of John H. Taber Edited by Stephen H. Taber. McFarland & Com...
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Battleships with Torpedo Tubes?

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Contributed by Naval Historian Steve McLaughlin Almost all battleships were fitted with torpedoes up until World War I. The image below ...
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Sunday, March 6, 2016

An AEF Veteran Looks Back on His Enlistment Ten Years Later

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Abian Wallgren (1892–1948) was a cartoonist who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1917. His drawing talent somehow pushed or pulled him to t...
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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Lest We Forget: The Man with a Donkey

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Simpson, 1915 In 2008, John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey and one of the most enduring of all Anzac legends, was de...
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Friday, March 4, 2016

High-Stakes Poker: The End Game on the Eastern Front

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Trotsky A German courier arrived in Petrograd on the morning of 23 February 1918 with Germany's new and more brutal peace ter...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Great Informational Kiosks on the Italian Front

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If you plan to travel to Italy and Slovenia to tour the Italian Front, you will be pleased to discover that they are very tourism friend...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Goeben and Breslau: Fateful Warships

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SMS Goeben (left below) was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after ...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The Last Great Cavalry Charge
reviewed by Michael P. Kihntopf

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The Last Great Cavalry Charge:  The Battle of the Silver Helmets, Halen, 12 August 1914 by Joe and Janet Robinson and Francis Hendrik...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Recommended: How World War I Helped Popularize the Bra

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From: Today I Found Out By Terynn Boulton Wartime Bra Advertisement (I Guess You Need the Free Style Book) Corsets dominated ...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Photos of the Dead

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By Tony Langley Contrary to modern myth, during the war itself, many photographs of the dead were published in news magazines in all the...
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