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The Lynching of Robert Prager

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.
by Jeff Manuel via We're History on April 5, 2018
Female medics during the 1918 pandemic.

How the Devastating 1918 Flu Pandemic Helped Advance US Women's Rights

With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.
by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker, Morten Wendelbo via The Conversation on March 1, 2018
Red Cross poster from WWI with woman wearing Red Cross hat and pin waving and saying Join Now.

Beginnings of the American Red Cross

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lucy Santos Green via Digital Public Library of America on February 22, 2018
Political cartoon of American victory locking German war in jail with a League of Nations lock.

Treaty of Versailles and the End of World War I

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Albert Robertson via Digital Public Library of America on February 22, 2018

The Unintended Consequences of Veterans' Day

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.
by Paul Steege via Hindsights on November 10, 2017

How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States.
by John M. Barry via Smithsonian Magazine on October 25, 2017

When Dissent Became Treason

100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on September 28, 2017

World War I: Immigrants Make a Difference on the Front Lines and at Home

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.
by Ryan Reft via Library of Congress on September 26, 2017
Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017
Putin and Trump.
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How a WWI-era Law Set the Stage for the Trump-Russia Controversy

And why Congress should do more to wrest back control of economic sanctions.
by Benjamin Coates via Made By History on July 31, 2017
Advertisement for Art War Relief during the First World War

Edith Magonigle and the Art War Relief

Called Art War Relief, members from a group of art societies formed a coalition under the auspices of the American Red Cross.
by Tal Nadan via The New York Public Library on July 20, 2017

Repressing Radicalism

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.
by Chip Gibbons via Jacobin on June 15, 2017

How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

The government's suppression of press freedom was a major component of its attempts to build support for the war effort
by Christopher B. Daly via The Conversation on April 27, 2017
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The U.S. Representative Who Tried to Outlaw War

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.
by Erin Blakemore, Harriet Hyman Alonso via JSTOR Daily on April 2, 2017
W.E.B. Du Bois

When W. E. B. Du Bois was Un-American

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.
by Andrew Lanham via Boston Review on January 13, 2017

The Epic Bar Fight That Sums Up the Problem with Memorial Day

A Depression-era story of mourning, motherhood, and grandiosity.
by Lisa M. Budreau via What It Means to Be American on May 26, 2016
Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.
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The Things They Carried

How soldiers returning from World War I brought the Spanish flu back with them.
via BackStory on February 19, 2016
Men dumping a barrel of alcohol down the sewer during Prohibition.
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Dried Up

How nativism and racism shaped the national movement towards Prohibition.
via BackStory on January 1, 2016
Sinking of the Lusitania

Life Aboard the Lusitania

Reliving the Sinking of the Lusitania Through the Eyes of a Survivor-My Great-Grandmother
by Emily Walker via Slate on May 7, 2015

The U.S. Confiscated Half a Billion Dollars in Private Property During WWI

America's home front was the site of internment, deportation, and vast property seizure.
by Daniel A. Gross via Smithsonian Magazine on July 28, 2014

Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.
by Jonathan Crow via Open Culture on May 6, 2014

The International Chemical Weapons Taboo

Our horror of chemical agents is one of the great success stories of modern diplomacy.
by Richard Price via Boston Globe on September 8, 2013

War and Prosthetics: How Veterans Fought for the Perfect Artificial Limb

The needs and entrepreneurship of wounded soldiers have driven many of the most significant advances in prosthetic technology.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on October 29, 2012
Nurse checking the heartbeat of a Black woman.

Preëxisting Condition

American legislators have been trying – and failing – to achieve universal health coverage for more than a century now.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on December 7, 2009
A donut.

The History of the Doughnut

A look back at the men, women and machines that made America’s favorite treat possible.
by David A. Taylor via Smithsonian Magazine on March 2, 1998

Trans-National America

In 1916, Randolph Bourne challenged widespread nativism by calling for a reconsideration of the “melting-pot” theory.
by Randolph S. Bourne via The Atlantic on July 5, 1916
An artificial Christmas tree

Augmenting Christmas: Artificial Trees and the Lure of Perpetual Nature

From aluminum to plastic, the evolution of artificial Christmas trees reveal our desires for safer, cleaner, “better” nature and modern convenience.
by Jessica van Horssen via NiCHE on December 11, 2025
Portrait of Morris Hillquit taken between 1910 and 1915.

The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America

The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as a foundation for a transition to socialism.
by Jonathan Michaels via Jacobin on November 10, 2025
William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley, and a manuscript letter.

The Man Who Rescued Faulkner

How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition.
by Michael Gorra via The Atlantic on November 4, 2025
Walter Lippmann on the ocean liner Conte di Savoia.

Walter Lippmann’s Phantom Publics

Arguably no American journalist wielded as much influence as Walter Lippmann did in the 20th century. But what did he do with that power?
by Gerald Howard via The Nation on October 15, 2025
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