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Critical repairs at Fort Assinniboine see influx of financial support   Last updated 5/10/2021 at 11:40am The Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association, has recently received a significant financial boost to its ongoing efforts to repair critical damage to the fort’s Officers’ Amusement Hall roof. A press release sent by Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission Historic Preservation Officer Becki Miller, who has been assisting the association in its efforts, said the organiza...

Simon & Schuster The 2016 presidential campaign was grinding on and Fort Worth’s Jeff Guinn, like the rest of the country, was hearing a lot about a big, beautiful border wall. That was enough to pique his interest in the past. “It occurred to me that I live in Texas, and I’ve lived in Texas since I was 18 years old,” Guinn, 70, says by phone. “So that means I’ve lived here about 150 years now. And I didn’t know much about the history of the U.S.-Mexico border. Like I always do, I...

Meet the First American Military Spouse Codebreaker This four-rotor Enigma machine is what German Naval traffic began transmitting on in 1943. (U.S. Navy/Moneé Cottman) Historical fiction plays up places like Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, as romantic and exciting despite the very real threat of Nazi invasion and bombing during World War II. Women made up about 75% of the workforce at Bletchley Park, which consisted of jobs operating cryptographic and communications machinery and ...

By PHILIP KENNICOTT | The Washington Post | Published: April 30, 2021 In Washington, memorials to the major wars of the 20th century were built in inverse order. First came the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in 1982, followed by the Korean War Veterans Memorial in 1995 and the National World War II Memorial in 2004. Earlier this month, the oldest of the four major wars of the past century, World War I, was honored with the newest memorial, a plaza with fountains and, at some point in the future, a...

The Pershing Home on Fort Bliss was built in 1910. General of the Armies John J. “Black Jack” Pershing lived in the home at 228 Sheridan Road from 1914 to 1916 as then post commander. In October 1911, the Pershing House was the scene of a historic event: The first 48-star flag was raised in front of the quarters to celebrate the pending statehood of neighboring New Mexico and Arizona. During Pershing’s 1916 Punitive Exhibition against Francisco “Pancho” Villa, the house buzzed with ...

Michael Collins, who circled the moon while Apollo 11 crewmen landed, dies at 90 He kept the command module going and running through the 117-page list of contingencies hed prepared in the event anything went awry. By Sarah KaplanThe Washington Post Share Apollo 11 command module pilot astronaut Michael Collins takes a break during training for the moon mission, in Cape Kennedy, Fla., in 1969. Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic ...

By SARAH KAPLAN | The Washington Post | Published: April 28, 2021 On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module Columbia. He was floating 60 miles above what he later called the "withered, sun-seared peach pit" of the moon. A lander carrying his fellow Apollo 11 crewmen, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, sped away from the main craft, en ro...

A chandelier of Nike sneakers now hangs inside 19th-century mansion Pershing Hall, where design studio Snarkitecture has created a new flagship for American streetwear brand Kith. New York-based Snarkitecture has designed more than 10 different stores for Kith, but this is the largest so far, and the brands first standalone store in Europe. Kith has taken three floors of Pershing Hall, a Paris mansion built in the 19th century The fit out was designed to be true to the urban New York style tha...

VAntage Point Virtual event honors WWI Veterans, opens National WWI Memorial  The virtual First Colors event paid homage to World War I Veterans and opened the National World War I Memorial on April 16. Hosted by actor Gary Sinise, the ceremony featured remarks from several guests, including President Joe Biden. “Let’s remember all that was sacrificed, all that was sanctified, by proud, brave Americans who served in World War I,” Biden said. He added that the war transformed America in...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn President Joe Biden said it commemorates the "courage" of American "Doughboys." • 6 min read Congressman wants to award Congressional Gold Medal to ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ Tom Suozzi of New York announced hes introducing a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the first African American regiment in World War I.Jacquelyn Martin/AP A flag thats flown over cemeteries in Europe where Americans killed in "T...