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In 2004, Congress named it the nation's official World War I museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the original memorial, which was completed in 2006. The Liberty Memorial was designated a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
The World War I Memorial Act of 2014 (S. 2264; H.R. 4489), was introduced by McCaskill in the Senate and Cleaver in the House. [44] Similar to the Poe legislation, the bills designated the Liberty Memorial as "a 'World War I Museum and Memorial'" and authorized a World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C, as "a 'World War I Museum and Memorial.'"
The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on Wednesday showed off an excavated century-old time capsule, revealing a cornucopia of early 20th-century relics, artifacts and documents.
The Black Tom explosion was an act of arson by field agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were about to be shipped to the Allies during World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding hundreds more. [1]
Riverfest and the National WWI Museum and Memorial joined forces to put on a spectacular fireworks display Satruday nigth.
This was a new social phenomenon and marked a major cultural shift in how nations commemorated conflicts. Interest in World War I and its memorials faded after World War II, and did not increase again until the 1980s and 1990s, which saw the renovation of many existing memorials and the opening of new sites. Visitor numbers at many memorials ...
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