World War I
Researchers Found a Long-Lost Christmas Song
"Crown Winter With Green" has some serious archival cred—and a sad story to tell
From the Telegram to Twitter, How Presidents Make Contact With Foreign Leaders
Does faster communication cause more problems than it solves?
What You Need to Know First to Understand the Russian Revolution
Read this first in a series of columns chronicling what led to that 1917 cataclysm
One Hundred Years Ago, the Titanic's Sister Ship Exploded While Transporting Injured WWI Soldiers
Bad luck seemed to follow the White Star Line’s infamous steam liners
Why We Call the Axis Powers the Axis Powers
On this day in 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared an axis between Berlin and Rome, coining a term that would be used by both sides in WWII
How the Poppy Came to Symbolize World War I
Red blooms help the world commemorate a bloody war
This Documentary Series Will Teach You About World War I in Real Time
A week-by-week approach to the Great War
Five Times Aleppo Was the Center of the World’s Attention
Will the once-regal city survive this moment in the spotlight?
Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus
The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents
Bloody Leaves Help Solve 82-Year-Old Royal Mystery
King Albert's untimely death sparked a range of conspiracy theories about the cause
The Harvard Professor Who Shot a Financial Titan and Fomented Anti-German Sentiment in a Pre-WWI America
Readers on July 4, 1915 learned the story of a would-be assassin who said he was trying to keep the U.S. out of the European conflict
A Bold New History of the Battle of the Somme
British generals have long been seen as the bunglers of the deadly conflict, but a revisionist look argues that a U.S. general was the real donkey
A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
An Oklahoma lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the thriving black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago
Curators Are Preserving Graffiti Scrawled By WWI Conscientious Objectors
The cell walls at Richmond Castle are still covered in drawings and notes
The Most Treacherous Battle of World War I Took Place in the Italian Mountains
Even amid the carnage of the war, the battle in the Dolomites was like nothing the world had ever seen—or has seen since
When the British Wanted to Camouflage Their Warships, They Made Them Dazzle
In order to stop the carnage wrought by German U-Boats, the Allied powers went way outside the box
Bullet Helps Revive Lawrence of Arabia's Reputation
A bullet from a Colt pistol found at the site of one of T.E. Lawrence's most famous battles helps verify the authenticity of his stories
When Newspapers Reported on Gun Deaths as "Melancholy Accidents"
A historian explains how a curious phrase used by the American press caught his eye and became the inspiration for his new book
With the Discovery of the USS Conestoga, Researchers Have Solved a Mystery That Was Nearly 100 Years Old
Even a century later, the news has brought relief to the families of the sailors who went down with their ship
This Is the Winning Design for the New World War I Memorial
One hundred years later, WWI will finally get a large-scale memorial in Washington, D.C.
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