World War I

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Unearthed: Hitler’s defiant pledge to stay in Berlin to the death

Paul Bedard · April 24, 2019 12:47 pm

The Bladensburg Cross is seen in Maryland.

The Supreme Court will preserve the Bladensburg cross, but it matters how

Washington Examiner · March 21, 2019 4:00 am

Visitors walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Bladensburg, Md.

Should the Peace Cross even be before the Supreme Court?

Alexandra McPhee · March 5, 2019 5:00 am

Philip Holdcraft, left, past commander of Colmar Manor American Legion Post 311, and Mike Moore, right, past commander of the Greenbelt American Legion Post 136. This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the meaning of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial (otherwise known as the Peace Cross) in the The American Legion v. American Humanist Association case. The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state.

A century after Great War, Supreme Court ponders whether to tear down memorial to American dead

Melissa Quinn · February 27, 2019 5:02 am

Atheists’ case is unbelievable — oh, the irony

Washington Examiner · February 27, 2019 5:00 am

The Peace Cross memorial, located in the three-way junction of Bladensburg Road, Baltimore Avenue, and Annapolis Road in Bladensburg, Maryland, Monday, February 25, 2019. The monument stands 40 foot tall and was built in memory of the 49 men of Prince George's County who died in World War I. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether the nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped war memorial violates the Constitution's required separation of church and state.

Beltway Confidential

The Bladensburg Peace Cross is part of our family

alvergia-guyton and mary-laquay · February 26, 2019 1:30 pm

British Army actively recruiting ‘snowflakes,’ ‘me me me millennials’

Anna Giaritelli · January 4, 2019 3:00 am

In this 1919 file photo, soldiers of the US Army 308th Infantry march up New York's Fifth Avenue just past the Arch of Victory during spring of 1919.

Think things are bad now? They were a lot worse in 1919

Michael Barone · January 2, 2019 9:26 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference before departing the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, July 12, 2018.

Trump invokes world wars to shame Europe about NATO contributions

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · December 8, 2018 2:23 pm

Beltway Confidential

‘Over There’ and Britain’s moving World War I salute to America

Tom Rogan · November 27, 2018 5:52 pm

Tolkien, Lewis, and the Lessons of World War I

Joseph Loconte · November 20, 2018 8:45 am

Beltway Confidential

Emmanuel Macron, the anti-Trump

Daniel DePetris · November 19, 2018 4:37 pm