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Texas Mexican American Soldiers with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

October 8, 2019 by Stephanie, posted in Document Spotlights, Research

Primary sources from the National Archives illustrate the experiences of Texas Mexican American Soldiers in WWI

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“Over the Top” Experiences of Texan Mexicans in the WWI Trenches

October 11, 2018October 7, 2019 by Stephanie, posted in Document Spotlights, Research

When the United States entered World War I, among the hundreds of thousands of men who registered for the first round of the draft that year were immigrants from all corners of the world.

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