World War I

A Civil War veteran, John William Boucher was one of the oldest men on the ground during the Great War.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.

During WWI the act of hearing was recast as a tactical activity — one that could determine human and even national survival.

In May 1921, President Harding paid tribute to a ship carrying 5,000 fallen Americans returned for burial.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

Memorials of World War I should focus on the truth—that it was bloody and pointless.

One hundred years ago, a group of U.S. academics and soldiers revolutionized warfare. We’re still seeing the results today.

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

A team of sound artists reconstructs what the end of the First World War might have sounded like.

The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.

A century ago, a German U-boat fired at five vessels and a Massachusetts beach before slinking back out to sea.

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.

A collection of photographs that show nature retaking the battle-ravaged land along the Great War's Western Front.

A historian probes the ‘tragedy’ of the famed scholar's failed WWI history.

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders