James Taub

“And now to-day has come along.
With rifle, haversack, and pack,
We're off, a hundred thousand strong.
And some of us will not come back.
But all we ask, if that befall,
Is this. Within your hearts be writ
This single line memorial:
He did his duty and his bit!”

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A colorized photo of the "Harvard Club of Alsace Reconquered." This photo on November 22, 1915 to celebrate Harvard's victory over Yale in football. All of those pictured here are ambulance drivers with the Section 3, American Field Service, then assigned to the French 66th Division.
#WWI

Fun history fact!

The sailors of the Pennsylvania Navy fired chain shot into the flank of advancing German infantry at the Battle of Red Bank in 1777.

Which really isn’t that fun. I guess it’s a fact though.

I don’t know what changed, but this is what it feels like to use this website now

I love the smell of fresh publisher proofs. Thanks to Dr. Warfield for the opportunity to contribute my chapter on French Jewish veterans of #WWI!

Me 99% of the time

The Comte de Grasse arrives at the mouth of the Chesapeake, 1781.

Pictured here is the bombardment looking over the Yser Canal.

The French Artillery showed a marked improvement in their preparatory fires from their experience at the Chemin des Dames the previous April. Before the 1e Corps start their attack. 1re armée had 893 guns to cover their 7 km front. That is one gun every 2.5 meters.

Some photos of the 1re armée #OnThisDay and several following during the Third Battle of Ypres. The armée, under the command of général François Anthoine, took part in the battle alongside Gough's 5th Army until operations dwindled down in November.

81 years ago, Leclerc and the French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée) return to France. Landing in Normandy on Utah Beach, many had not been on French soil since 1940. They join the American 3rd Army under Patton. From Utah Beach, they start on the road that will lead to Paris.
#WW2

Great video of members of a Chasseur battalion raiding a captured German field kitchen near Soissons during the Second Battle of the Marne. August, 1918.
© IWM (IWM 508-73)

"Monsieur Poilu, would you like this grenade which I, a 6-year-old, have for some reason?"

French and American sailors in Times Square, NYC. 1943.

Some of the most powerful images from American history come from these #FWW veterans.

On July 28th, 1932, the US Army destroyed the camps of the Bonus Army in Washington D.C. These #WWI veterans had been promised a bonus payout in 1945. However, the Great Depression had made many unable to feed their families. Requesting an early payout, they were forcibly removed. #OTD.

I still think a lot about Asa Glick.

L'utilisation du mot « yankee » semble en soi confirmer l'orientation politique de l'auteur, à moins qu'il ne s'agisse d'un usage typiquement français sorti de son contexte américain.

La liberté de faire qoui?

Robert E. Lee and Me "Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier...

Le Sud a perdu la guerre mais a gagné la paix et la mémoire. La plupart de ces histoires ont été écrites pour glorifier la rébellion et, plus tard, pour contrer le Civil Rights Movement.

Lire ce: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

#WW2 public history weekend. Decided to set up a little display. Vive la France Libre

You can't win every battle by losing half of your army in the process..

Worth a shot for someone with the experience to make a difference in public understanding of WWI.

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France

Chasseurs #Alpins of the 115e Bataillon train the Marines of 5th Regiment, #USMC, on how to set up barbed wire entanglements. Summer, 1917.

I'd watch the crap out of this version of Cars

It is a monument to the America of 2018, not 1918.

For the record, I was the education coordinator for the organization which built this, and myself and other historians, plus art historians opposed it the entirety of the way. Am I proud there is now a national memorial to WWI? Absolutely. Am I happy that it turned out this way? Absolutely not.