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 ...

Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed. Summary The mural in the niche at the north entrance to the Senate Chamber depicts Missourian General John Joseph ...

General John Joseph Pershing, U. S. A., made a new kind of announcement last week—a publisher’s announcement. He had not written a War novel, nor an autobiography, nor even a volume of poems. But the ...

In 1917, Gen. John Pershing had a problem. And it wasn't the guy he had been ordered to hunt down. Tasked with capturing Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Pershing had crossed into Mexico to end the Mexican ...

A. Pershing Avenue was named in honor of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing during a visit to Davenport on Jan. 6, 1920. Pershing led American forces to victory in Europe during World War I. When he ...

Along a strip of frosty marshland at Red Deer Ranch, Cherry County, Neb., Gen. John Joseph Pershing prowled with a gun. Two companions crouched beside him. On a nearby pool they espied a flock of wild ...

I really didn’t want to write about the latest Kevin de León move but Gen. John J. Pershing made me. Or rather, his statue in Washington, D.C. It stands at the National World War I Memorial, a ...