This year will mark the passing of a full century since the end of World War I—a hundred years since the “War to End All Wars.” In that time, much of the battle-ravaged landscape along the Western Front has been reclaimed by nature or returned to farmland, and the scars of the war are disappearing. Some zones remain toxic a century later, and others are still littered with unexploded ordnance, closed off to the public. But across France and Belgium, significant battlefields and ruins were preserved as monuments, and farm fields that became battlegrounds ended up as vast cemeteries. In these places, the visible physical damage to the landscape remains as evidence of the phenomenal violence and destruction that took so many lives so long ago.
The History of History
The History of History
A collection of resources exploring the ways that historians and history educators have approached some key themes in the American past.
Colonial Era
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View Connections20American Indians
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World Wars
The Fading Battlefields of World War I
A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.Civil Rights Movement
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