QUARRYVILLE, Pa. — Students at Solanco High School in Lancaster County were out digging and reconstructing World War I-style trenches as part of a hands-on history lesson on Thursday. The day of ...
We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...
The museum holds 60,000 books and 40,000 artifacts on military history. Angela visits the Pritzker Military Museum & Library near Kenosha, which houses over 60,000 books and 40,000 artifacts. Director ...
“Trench stew” was on the menu Thursday for more than 400 Solanco High School students. While sitting in the actual trenches they had built that morning, they enjoyed their World War I-era lunch, wrote ...
“This was handed down to me from my grandfather,” wrote Jed Vier to the column about an item he was hoping to bring in for appraisal. “He was a French cavalryman in World War I. He spent three years ...
A disease infamous for sickening soldiers during World War I is popping up again among one of the most vulnerable populations: people struggling with homelessness. In a new case report out this week, ...
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Solanco High School took students out of the classroom and put them in the trenches for today’s unique lesson on WWI history. Instruction takes a deeper approach each year with ...
GOSPORT, England (AP) — Two lines of trenches face off across No Man’s Land. A soldier marches, rifle in hand, along a ditch. These are instantly familiar images of World War I — but this is Britain, ...
World War I was unlike anything the world had ever seen. Marked by brutal trench warfare, devastating new technology, and a reshaping of global alliances, it was the war that defined the 20th ...