Jim Davis

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…

June 5, 1918, was the first anniversary of the Selective Service Draft Act. Almost six million men across the nation between the ages of twenty-one and…

Today is Memorial Day, a day to honor those who paid the extreme sacrifice in the service of their country. In 1918, Memorial Day services across the…

On this date in 1918, the last quota of the selective service draft initiated in June the preceding year was being processed. Thirteen hundred men from…

On this date in 1918, the Great War was raging, and North Dakota boys were fighting in the front-line trenches. The first three years of the war had shown…

In the spring of 1918, with the war raging in France, another battle was playing out in the political landscape of North Dakota. In a few short years, the…

100 years ago, North Dakota boys were now in the thick of the fighting in France. A decision of the Department of War to publish casualty lists without…

Soon after they arrived in France, privates in the North Dakota Regiments were often separated from their units and spirited to the front as replacements.…

"They can come and take me and put me in prison or kill me, but they can't make me fight. God's against war, and it isn't right.”These words, uttered by…

April 6, 1918 marked the one year anniversary of America’s entrance into the Great War. In many of North Dakota’s towns and cities, impressive…