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 ·
World War I
Unofficial Files and the War Plans Division's Map of Domestic Dissent
Suffragists, Black soldiers, and peace activists were photographed by a propaganda agency and handed to military planners in a cache kept secret from official records.
By Marcus Boone ·
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 ·