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My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War

By |2017-06-13T12:22:36-04:00June 13th, 2017|Books, History, Military|

2017 marks the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, a conflict often neglected in favor of World War II, which is unfortunate given that WWII is, in some respects, the offspring of the earlier conflict. Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War is the ideal book to help rectify this balance.

Genealogy Roundup, May 17

By |2017-05-17T11:34:06-04:00May 17th, 2017|DNA / Genetic Genealogy, Genealogy Roundup, Human Interest, Military|

This week: A restaurant born of loss that showcases a spectrum of cultural cuisines - all cooked with love by grandmothers, a retired doctor helped by genetic genealogy to identify the father she never knew, a love letter lost for more than seventy years makes its way to the intended recipient, and much more!

Genealogy Roundup, May 3

By |2017-05-03T11:25:55-04:00May 3rd, 2017|Family History, Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest, Military|

This week: Explore a museum of architecture that once housed the U.S. Pension Bureau, what makes people love physical books, an Underground Railroad memorial in the corner of a McDonald's parking lot, and more.

Genealogy Roundup, April 12

By |2017-04-12T10:28:35-04:00April 12th, 2017|Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest, Military|

In this week's Roundup: How WWI shaped the U.S. economically, socially and culturally; an 86-year-old woman visits the cabin she grew up in, now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and reflects on what life was like as a youth; plus much more.

Genealogy Roundup, April 5

By |2017-04-05T11:17:07-04:00April 5th, 2017|Celebrities, Genealogy Roundup, History, Human Interest, Military|

Lots to explore this week: an abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps, a branch of the underground railroad you might not have heard of before, a shopping list that hints at "the management of the households of the wealthy" in the 17th century, a soldier missing from the Korean War returning home, and more.

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