WWI: Over There
Doughboys, training camps, flu wards, and Liberty Memorials: how the First World War swept up American main streets, and how they chose to remember it.
15 narrated stories — read them here, or hear them all in the app.
Fentress County
Alvin York’s Hard Road to Duty
A farmer’s moral struggle became one of World War I’s defining stories.
Linn County
From Laclede to the American Expeditionary Forces
How a Linn County boy became General Pershing.
Liberty Memorial
How Kansas City Built Its World War I Memorial
A city’s grief, pride, and money rose together into Liberty Memorial.
Indiana World War Memorial Plaza Historic District
When Indianapolis Turned Downtown Into a Memorial
How remembrance after World War I reshaped the heart of Indianapolis.
North Carolina State University Memorial Belltower
The Tower That Waited for Its Moment
A war memorial delayed for decades became NC State’s defining symbol.
Camp Taylor
When Camp Taylor Became a City Overnight
A wartime camp that briefly remade Louisville’s edge.
Fort Custer Training Center
From Farm Fields to Camp Custer
How farmland became a wartime city for the 85th Division.
Charlotte
When Camp Greene Remade Charlotte
A wartime camp that changed Charlotte almost overnight.
Camp Merritt Memorial Monument
Camp Merritt and the Road to Hoboken
A wartime camp often misplaced on the map, but crucial to New York Harbor.
San Jose
When Influenza Hit Camp Fremont
A wartime training camp becomes part of a public-health crisis.
Memorial Park
The Night Camp Logan Broke Open
How wartime Houston turned racial terror into deadly violence.
National Jewish Health
When Denver Became a Wartime Hospital City
A World War I story of Denver caring for soldiers who could not go back.
DeSoto County
When Arcadia’s Pastures Learned to Fly
How rural land near Arcadia became a World War I flight school.
National Stars and Stripes Museum and Library
How Bloomfield Became Home to Stars and Stripes
A Missouri town became the keeper of a newspaper born with troops in France.
Kansas City
When France Felt Close to Jackson County
How a Missouri regiment made a distant war personal at home.
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