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C-SPAN visited monuments, villages, and an American cemetery associated with the September 12 to 16, 1918 World War I Battle of Saint-Mihiel, France. Locations included the Montsec American …

Historian Mitchell Yockelson led a tour of American monuments, battlefields, and a cemetery in northeastern France to commemorate the centennial of several battles in May and June of 1918. T…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan visited battlefields, villages, and monuments to tell the story of the forty-seven day Meuse-Argonne offensive, one…

A French battlefield guide and an American historian toured the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in northeastern France. The last resting place of 14, 246 Americans who died in the region dur…

U.S. Army Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, was shot down and killed near the village of Chamery, France, during World War I. American History TV visited a mem…

French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian Mitchell Yockelson visited a memorial and remnants of World War I trenches in France’s Argonne Forest to tell the story of the “Lost B…

American History TV visited a memorial to World War I soldier Alvin York in a French village near the Argonne Forest. Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French battlefield guide Guillaume Moiz…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I scholar Guillaume Moizan provided commentary for several silent U.S. Army films documenting the September 26 to November 11, 1918 American…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan provided commentary for several silent U.S. Army Signal Corps films recorded shortly after the end of W…

Historians narrated a 1921 silent U.S. Army film documenting the journey of the remains of an unknown American World War I soldier from France to Arlington Cemetery. On November 11, 1921, an…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I expert Guillaume Moizan provided commentary for a silent French film dedicated to the U.S. forces that joined the Allies in 1917.

A French battlefield guide and an American historian visited a German cemetery in the Argonne Forest in France where U.S. forces fought many battles between September 26 and November 11, 191…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan provided commentary for silent U.S. Army Signal Corps films from 1918. Restored by the National Archive…

This 1918 silent film documents the U.S. experience in World War I. Two historians provided provided context and commentary throughout. America Goes Over is one of many silent World War I fi…

Historian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I expert Guillaume Moizan provided commentary for a silent U.S. Army film documenting a September 1918 American offensive.

American History TV presented live coverage from the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City to mark the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I. Guests talked about about …

Mitchell Yockelson talked about his book, Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I. Mr. Yockelson focused on General “Black Jack” Pershi…

A panel of experts on World War I recounted stories of the Great War, and provided insight into the enduring influence of the conflict on culture, on technological advancement, and on global…

Members of the Archival Recovery Team from the Office of the Inspector General of the National Archives were shown traveling to a Civil War and antiques show in Richmond, Virginia. There, th…

Elaine Weiss talked about her book Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of America in the Great War (Potomac Books; December 31, 2008). From 1917 to 1920 the Woman’s Land Army sent thous…