World War I

Arts and Culture

How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed Black America

The Conversation - February 14, 2024

Aaron Douglas. "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction." Oil on canvas, 1934. The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in...

Digital Daily

What veterans’ poems can teach us about healing on Memorial Day

Courier Newsroom - May 30, 2022

by James Dubinsky, Virginia Tech Memorial Day, a national holiday to honor the 1.17 million men and women who have died to create and maintain...

Opinion/Forum

When Trump was afraid of the weather…and other insults to veterans

Courier Newsroom - November 14, 2018

November 11, 2018 was not an insignificant date. It was not just another Veteran’s Day. One hundred years prior “The Great War”—as World War...

National News

Black and Jewish WWI heroes finally getting Medal of Honor

Courier Newsroom - June 3, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor Tuesday to two World War I Army soldiers who may have been denied...

Pittsburgh News/Metro

Parades, speeches mark Veterans Day in Pa.

Associated Press - November 11, 2013

A spectator looks at a program during the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Gwinnett Fallen Heroes Memorial in Lawrenceville on Monday,...

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