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 ...

In late March 1918, the German Army began pursuing the spring offensive in France, its most ambitious advance since the First World War began four years earlier. Back in the United States, an ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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