It has been written that if pianist Bill Carrothers hadn't found his way to music, he'd have likely become a historian, something that is clear from an earlier record, The Blues and the Greys, and now ...

The celebration of Veterans Day is rooted in the ending of major hostilities in World War I. The hostilities formally ceased at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918, when the ...

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent as the armistice ending major hostilities of World War I went into effect between the ...

On Veteran’s Day ask someone what U.S. military campaign began on September 26, 1918 and what did it achieve. The answer is the Meuse-Argonne offensive in France in which the U.S. led the Allies to ...

World War I ended in Russia on March 3, 1918, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The signatories included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Lenin’s Bolshevik regime. Lenin ...

Growing up, learning about World War I usually involved learning about three things: trench foot, poison gas and bloody stalemate. Right before the history teacher moves on to World War II, we learn ...

Americans celebrated Christmas over a century ago during the previous pandemic with some of the same concerns of the modern day, including considering whether to gather with loved ones and risk deadly ...