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World War I
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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
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Is It Right to Blame World War I's Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
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Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong
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Decades later, negotiators are still deciding whether the survivors of the Iasi pogrom lived in a ghetto
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World War I Was the Dawn of America's Era of Global Leadership
Is it coming to an end?
By Ian Bremmer
April 6, 2017
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
April 4, 2017
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
February 23, 2017
The Tank Was First Used 100 Years Ago Today
It traveled at just 3 miles per hour
By Abigail Abrams
September 15, 2016
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
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Testament of Youth
By Eliza Berman
June 5, 2015
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
May 7, 2015
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
April 2, 2015
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
January 16, 2015
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
December 24, 2014
A Hanukkah Story You've Probably Never Heard
Tensions between the Jewish communities of Jerusalem gave way to a temporary peace
By Noah Rayman
December 16, 2014
How Veterans Day Came to Be
It was almost 'Mayflower Day'
By Noah Rayman
November 11, 2014
Stop Pretending Nothing Happens in August
The month of beach vacations is also when World War I broke out, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Andrés Martinez
August 20, 2014
What Historians Get Wrong About World War I
On the eve of the Great War's centennial, many still get a great deal wrong about the conflict's outbreak: the world did not blunder into mass bloodletting by accident
By Stephen A. Schuker
August 1, 2014
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In the news: The partition of Iraq; Ukraine signs historic EU agreement; U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war; Supreme Court rules on presidential appointment powers and abortion clinic buffer zones; World War I centennial; Clinton's book and the Chinese market; U.S. advances to the next round of the World Cup
By Alex Rogers
June 27, 2014
How 9 Other Countries Remember Their Fallen Troops
As America observes Memorial Day, here’s how other countries around the world honor their fallen.
By Noah Rayman
May 25, 2014
Unnamed British Soldiers From WWI Get New Burial
The inhabitants of a grave full of unidentified British soldiers were re-buried in France
By Maddy Fry
March 14, 2014
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