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Rochester resident Helen McCracken experienced a jolt of recognition from an unexpected source recently. Leafing through the Post-Bulletin, McCracken found herself looking at a photo of a familiar ...
Trench warfare was a grim and grueling experience, marked by long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden bursts of terror. Soldiers endured freezing temperatures ...
NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a ...
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 ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...
The thunderous sound of falling shells and vibrations rise through the floor. Each time, sand and dirt trickle down from the ...