About Stephen L. Harris

Stephen L. Harris is the author of an award-winning trilogy about New York City’s National Guard regiments in World War I. This article is adapted from “Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I.” He is also the author of Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I.

Essays by Stephen L. Harris:

• How Harlem’s ‘Hellfighters’ gained their name — and helped win the Great War