The First World War, also known as "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars," was one of the most devastating conflicts in ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 physicians and support staff sailed to war-torn ...

It has been more than 100 years since the First World War ended, a triumph still celebrated across Europe every year. Countries once cut up into systems of trenches and no-man’s land join ...

Just-war doctrine says that, in a fallen world, as a last resort one fallen nation may use deadly force against another to promote long-term peace and avert grave injustice.

At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois published a controversial 1918 editorial, “Close Ranks,” in the NAACP publication the Crisis. In it, he counseled his readers to “forget our ...

While Hollywood has a larger fascination with World War II, there are also several great films about the First World War. World War I was one of the biggest conflicts in human history, known as ...

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It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted ...