John J. Pershing, a military commander whose brilliant career earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died on July 15, 1948. The first general awarded the title since George ...

One hundred years ago, a huge crowd gathered in Armory Park in Passaic to hear U.S. Army General John J. Pershing praise the men who fought so bravely in World War I. Pershing, commander of the ...

As the centennial for World War I approaches, a group of District residents is making a push to keep the city’s war memorial on the National Mall from being co-opted as the official national memorial ...

How should the United States honor the wishes of the last American World War I soldier, who asked for a national monument to the country's role in the conflict? The answer is more complicated than it ...

Standing portrait of General Pershing with his head turned slightly to the proper left as he scans the battlefield. He raises field glasses up to his eyes with his proper right hand and holds his hat ...