World War I

1917 Is a Movie About the Horrors of War, Told With a Devotion to Beauty and Life

By Stephanie Zacharek

How Nurses in World War I Helped Change Ideas About What Women Could Accomplish

By Caroline Todd

Is It Right to Blame World War I's Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?

By Steven Woodbridge, Kingston University / The Conversation

Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong

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Were These Holocaust Survivors Forced Into a Ghetto? The Answer Will Determine Their Financial Future

Decades later, negotiators are still deciding whether the survivors of the Iasi pogrom lived in a ghetto

By Lily Rothman

The Library of Congress Is Using These Images to Tell the Story of World War I

See a preview of some of the images that are used to tell the story of World War I in a new book from the Library of Congress

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

World War I Was the Dawn of America's Era of Global Leadership

Is it coming to an end?

By Ian Bremmer

How World War I Helped Women Win the Right to Vote

Two clips from a new American Experience documentary showcase the work of Alice Paul and Jane Addams

By Lily Rothman

Remembering the First World War in Images

In 1964, on the 50th anniversary of the Great War, LIFE magazine undertook a project of telling the war's story using images from the time

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These Battlefields Were Devastated in World War I. See What They Look Like Today

The photographs are on view at the National WWI Museum and Memorial

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See Stirring Century-Old Artwork by French Children Reacting to World War I

The U.S. declaration of war came on April 6, 1917

By Lily Rothman

The Zimmermann Telegram at 100: This Decoded Message Changed History

The infamous Zimmermann Telegram was given to President Woodrow Wilson 100 years ago, on Feb. 24, 1917

By Lily Rothman

The Tank Was First Used 100 Years Ago Today

It traveled at just 3 miles per hour

By Abigail Abrams

Why There's No World War I Memorial on the U.S. National Mall

The nation hasn't yet figured out how to remember the war that gave us Veterans Day

By Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee / History News Network

Kit Harington on His 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' With Testament of Youth

The Game of Thrones star talks about the sensitive, poetry-writing soldier he plays in Testament of Youth

By Eliza Berman

The Eerie Links Between the Lusitania and the Titanic

May 7, 1915: A torpedo from a German U-boat sinks the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people

By Jennifer Latson

The Forgotten Link Between World War I and Women's Rights

A century ago, the Women’s Congress met with the aim of revolutionizing a ravaged political landscape

By History Today

The Brief Luxurious Life of Adolf Hitler, 50 Feet Below Berlin

Jan. 16, 1945: Hitler retires to the bunker below his Berlin chancellery, where he lives out his remaining 105 days

By Jennifer Latson

Why WWI Soldiers Put Their Guns Down on Christmas Day 1914

Exactly a century ago, the men in the trenches heard something unusual: singing

By Naina Bajekal

A Hanukkah Story You've Probably Never Heard

Tensions between the Jewish communities of Jerusalem gave way to a temporary peace

By Noah Rayman
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