AEF Prisoners and the War Department's Curated Memory
Soldiers captured by Germans became tools for a sanitized national narrative, hidden for decades in files that balanced patriotic imagery against intelligence reports.
By Constance Bell ·
Censorship
The 54 Missing Divisions and the Army's Foreign Ledger
The Army’s operational records for World War I hide a massive gap in division numbering, leaving the legacy of thousands of soldiers to be managed by French and British archivists.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Leonard Perroots and the CIA's War on a Public Record
The CIA erased text already published by the State Department to hide the contents of a 1989 report, scrubbing even the portions marked unclassified.
By Harlan Pryce ·
441st CIC Detachment logged war atrocities and citizenship probes
Investigation summaries and censorship rules stayed buried in Army files, tracking the lives of those accused of disloyalty or witnessing the worst of war.
By Desmond Okafor ·