Jim Davis

The American Expeditionary Forces were advancing, with the British and French forces, along the front in France. The causalities were heavy. As of August…

When Dakota Territory was settled, the United States encouraged the arrival of European immigrants. At a federal court hearing this week in 1918, Judge…

The war had brought about some dramatic labor shifts. Immediately a call went out for 25,000 student nurses in July of 1918, it was followed by a request…

As the American Expeditionary Force became more heavily involved on the battlefields of France, casualty numbers were staggering as trench warfare became…

The trial of John H. Wishek, the former state senator and well known banker and businessman from McIntosh County, began in Bismarck on July 9, 1918.…

In the Special Session of 1918, the North Dakota Legislature created and funded the North Dakota Council of Defense. The Council was comprised of the…

On this date in 1918, the political climate across the state was calming momentarily with the completion of North Dakota’s primary election the week…

On April 26, 1917, only twenty days after the United States declared war on Germany, the newspaper headlines in the Tower City Topics, a Cass County…

E. H. Tostevin, the Mandan soldier and newspaperman, traveled throughout France attempting to record the war as seen through the eyes of North Dakota…

This is Dakota Datebook for June 15th; North Dakota remembers World War I.By the middle of June in 1918, American troops, now numbering at over eight…