On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, was struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian ...

The First World War began in the summer of 1914, shortly after the assassination of Austria’s Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and ...

The American Red Cross was active at Camp Pike in supporting troops during training. The card, titled “ready to go,” ...

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Dispatch features a page from this week in history to celebrate the newspaper's 150 years of publication, with a little update on what's happened since. Folks in ...

The 1918 flu, also known as the Spanish flu, spread worldwide during 1918 and 1919. In the U.S. it was first identified in military personnel in the spring of 1918 and mostly affected younger ...

IN a dozen years we have seen a marked change in our understanding of the war, only the least of which is attributable to fiction. With the publication of our archive material, with the summing up of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Nov 11, 2022 Nov 11, 2022 0 On Nov. 11, 1918, the mayor of St. Louis declared a holiday to celebrate the end of World War I.

Caroline Finley, center, with Château Ognon (upper left) and colleagues in an album belonging to her great-nephew. courtesy Peter McElroy Jr. In late March 1918, the German Army began pursuing the ...

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