WWI

On Thursday, October 17, 1918, the editor of the Maurice Times, Maurice, Iowa, had no idea what was to come. In just a couple of days, he would have loved…

We talk with 4th district democratic candidate JD Scholten about his second try at winning the race against veteranincumbent Steve King. King has held the…

Robert J. Casey: from The Cannoneers Have Hairy EarsIn cities and towns around the nation, Armistice Day was a joy. In France, the engine of war was…

Almost a year passed before she heard anything at all from her brother. Not that she didn't try. She did, hard and often, writing letters that would…

By the time American troops got to Europe in 1917, African-Americans had an established, but not celebrated history in military service of our country. In…

When Edgar Hartman came down with the mumps, it laid him up for a month. That may seem unlikely. Mumps? Hartman was a 26-year-old soldier who'd just…

I was a boy in the 1950s, forty long years after November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, when the unimaginable carnage of the First World War finally ended. As…

Willa Cather’s My Antonia is 100 years old, published the same year tens of thousands of doughboys were killed in France and Belgium, thousands more dying…

President Woodrow Wilson, like each and every President--and all of us--was a bundle of contradictions, his very soul a nest of hooks. From the time he…

It was a highly fashionable method of getting across the Atlantic, a cruise ship bigger and faster than any other. A cruise ship with its own electrical…