No Less A Hero

America was changing rapidly in the early 20th Century. Telephones, cars and airplanes made the nation smaller, and women began to assert themselves as never before. The United States was prosperous and happily isolationist, but that was about to change.

The great powers of Europe spent a decade building huge armies and navies, and in 1914, the assassination of an Austrian nobleman turned the rival nations into enemy combatants. The United States remained neutral for almost three years, unti...