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A photograph of John William Boucher superimposed over a collage of newspaper headlines about him being the oldest soldier in WWI.

The 72-Year-Old Who Lied About His Age to Fight in World War I

A Civil War veteran, John William Boucher was one of the oldest men on the ground during the Great War.
by Nick Yetto via Smithsonian on June 2, 2023
Eugene Debs mug shots at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta.

War Fever

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 7, 2023
A digital composite images shows troops landing at Anzac Cove in Turkey during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.

Ukraine’s War Is Like World War I, Not World War II

The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.
by Anatol Lieven via Foreign Policy on October 27, 2022
British soldiers with a four-horn sound locator. This photograph documents a military drill during the interwar period.

Powers of Hearing: The Military Science of Sound Location

During WWI the act of hearing was recast as a tactical activity — one that could determine human and even national survival.
by Gascia Ouzounian via The MIT Press Reader on July 26, 2021
A next-of-kin response card asking for the return of the remains of Pvt. James Argiroplos, who was killed near Hébuterne in France during World War I.

After WWI, U.S. Families Were Asked if They Wanted Their Dead Brought Home. Forty Thousand Said Yes.

In May 1921, President Harding paid tribute to a ship carrying 5,000 fallen Americans returned for burial.
by Michael E. Ruane via Washington Post on May 30, 2021
Soldiers in a trench during the First World War.

What We Should Remember on Armistice Day

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.
by Michael Brenes via Jacobin on November 11, 2020

World War Waste

Memorials of World War I should focus on the truth—that it was bloody and pointless.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 14, 2018
WW1 soldiers wearing gas masks.

How World War I Became the First Modern War of Science

One hundred years ago, a group of U.S. academics and soldiers revolutionized warfare. We’re still seeing the results today.
by Theo Emery via Politico Magazine on November 12, 2018

World War I Relived Day by Day

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.
by Patrick Chovanec via New York Review of Books on November 8, 2018

Making a New World: Armistice Soundwave

A team of sound artists reconstructs what the end of the First World War might have sounded like.
via Coda to Coda on November 6, 2018

How Horror Changed After WWI

The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.
by W. Scott Poole via Literary Hub on October 31, 2018

A Hundred Years After the Armistice

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.
by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker on October 28, 2018

The Great War’s Great Price

Revisiting the wreckage on the centenary of the armistice.
by Allen C. Guelzo via National Review on October 25, 2018

How a Tiny Cape Cod Town Survived World War I’s Only Attack on American Soil

A century ago, a German U-boat fired at five vessels and a Massachusetts beach before slinking back out to sea.
by Jake Klim via Smithsonian on July 19, 2018

The Lesson of the Great War

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.
by Eliot A. Cohen via The Atlantic on July 9, 2018

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.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on May 28, 2018
Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Retracing Du Bois’ Missteps

A historian probes the ‘tragedy’ of the famed scholar's failed WWI history.
by Colleen Walsh via Harvard Gazette on February 22, 2018
Indian bicycle troops at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.
by Pankaj Mishra via The Guardian on November 10, 2017

The War to End All Wars

The ardent but flawed movement against World War I.
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft via The Nation on October 5, 2017

Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on April 10, 2017

Five Myths About World War I

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.
by Michael Kazin via Washington Post on April 6, 2017

What Americans Thought of WWI

What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago?
by Livia Gershon, Jennifer D Keene via JSTOR Daily on April 4, 2017

Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.
via Library of Congress on April 4, 2017
World War I memorial.

How Should World War I Be Taught in American Schools?

The two versions of WWI taught in most schools tell us as much about the present as they do about the past.
by Kyle Greenwalt via The Conversation on April 4, 2017

How World War I Ushered in the Century of Oil

When the war was over, the developed world had little doubt that a nation’s future standing in the world was predicated on access to oil.
by Brian C. Black via The Conversation on April 3, 2017

The Odds Against Antiwar Warriors

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on March 30, 2017
Poster depicting Belgium and the U.S. as women greeting each other in friendship.

World War I: America Heads to War

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by James Walsh via Digital Public Library of America on April 7, 2016

Into the Trenches in Red and Blue

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2014
Text overlay over a photograph of a WW1 soldier aiming a machine gun over a pile of sandbags.

40 Maps That Explain World War I

Why the war started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.
by Matthew Yglesias, Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee via Vox on August 14, 2014

1914: Into the Fire

An excerpt from a recently discovered memoir of World War I, "The Burning of the World."
by Béla Zombory-Moldován via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2014
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