Commentaries by Benjamin G. Davis and Alessio Parisi

May 2, 1945, Piazza della Vittoria, Genova (Genoa), Italy, courtesy of Alessio Parisi (Archivio Binelli - Fondazione Carige)

Memorial Day 2021 Redux: The Fighting Three Wars Photo That Haunts All of the US

Benjamin G. Davis and Alessio Parisi

June 17, 2021 10:09:14 am

The Photo That Haunts All of the United States In a recent JURIST post commemorating Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, one of us wrote about a photo that haunts us. Thanks to the kindness of Alessio Parisi, we are now able to share that photo with you. It is above in black and white and [...]

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.