Gold Star Mothers – The UncommonWealth

“He was very brave, and though seriously ill he was always thinking of others…” : Influenza Claims a WWI Soldier

While working with the Virginia War History Commission WWI Questionnaires collection, I have often wondered what it must have been like living through that time,…

Rose SchooffApril 8, 2020

“If They Consent to Leave Them Over There”: The European Pilgrimages of World War I Mothers and Widows From Virginia

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in slightly altered form in the Summer 2001 issue of “Virginia Cavalcade.” The images are taken from two private…

Mary ClarkNovember 21, 2018

"We Will Remember Them": Eleven Virginians in the Great War

One hundred years ago, on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” representatives of Germany and the Allied forces met in…

Claire RadcliffeNovember 11, 2018

“Our share in the war is no small one”: Virginia Women and World War I, Part II

This is the second of a two-part blog post adapted from an article originally written for the Summer 2001 issue of Virginia Cavalcade. While nurses…

Jennifer Davis McDaidMarch 21, 2018