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Originally published 06/02/2015
Two World War I Soldiers to Posthumously Receive Medal of Honor

Pvt. Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin of the Army will be recognized for valor for risking their lives to protect others on the French front line in 1918.

Originally published 04/23/2015
German Australians suffered 'enemy heritage' persecution during war

The War Precautions Act allowed people of so-called “enemy heritage” to be arrested and placed in prison camps without trial.

Originally published 04/10/2015
Secret Warriors of the First World War

Taylor Downing

The First World War was not just a war of trenches, slaughter and sacrifice. It changed the scientific and technological landscape of the century to follow.

Originally published 03/11/2015
How World War I Led to the Apple Watch

The high-tech Apple Watch may never have come to fruition had World War I not erased the cultural stigma that used to surround wristwatches.

Originally published 02/20/2015
The first American to die on the battlefield in World War I died before the US entered the conflict

Missing from chapters on World War One are the stories of Americans who volunteered for the fight before the US entered the war.

Originally published 12/18/2014
Sure Drones Seem Like a Good Military Option Now, but If We Use Them, so Will Others

Thomas I. Faith

That’s the lesson of chemical warfare.

Originally published 12/10/2014
How foreign policy makers view pivotal years says a great deal about how they act in 2014

Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk

Pick your historical analogy. 1914. 1938.

Originally published 12/08/2014
Hard Truths about Britain’s Entry into World War I

Douglas Newton

It’s a myth that the British government backed war reluctantly.

Originally published 11/27/2014
It took a decade before film could look at the trauma of World War I straight on

Ryan Copping

How we remember the war is largely shaped by how popular artists struggled and sought to approach it in the late 20s and early 30s.

Originally published 11/21/2014
World War I records reveal myths and realities of soldiers with ‘shell shock’

Stefanie Linden

During World War I, severe post-traumatic reactions reached an epidemic scale that surpassed anything known from previous armed conflicts.

Originally published 09/29/2014
Defeating ISIS the World War One Way

H. W. Crocker III

Blackjack Pershing would know what to do.

Originally published 08/27/2014
The Real Lessons of 1914

Ralph Seliger

What we should learn from World War I is not to engage in quixotic military crusades, nor to mount wars of choice in the face of overwhelming international opposition.

Originally published 08/23/2014
First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum

Revisiting the nightmares of World War I.

Originally published 08/13/2014
What was the impact of WW I on Britain's home front? Watch! (app)

To commemorate 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, Rightmove has created Then & Now, an interactive journey into the past told through archive photos and Google Street View.

Originally published 08/13/2014
World War I — Now in Color

The Open University in the United Kingdom hired a photo restoration specialist to restore and color a handful of images.

Originally published 08/11/2014
Sex, cocaine and epic binge drinking. What the history books don’t tell you about life in Britain during the Great War

Terry Charman

As the horrors raged in the trenches, and young men died in squalor by their thousands, back home in Britain a new national crisis had taken hold — one as unexpected as it was disturbing.

Originally published 08/07/2014
“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson talks to Rob Attar, editor of BBC History Magazine, about why he believes Britain made a terrible mistake in joining the First World War a century ago.

Originally published 08/06/2014
Political map of Who’s Who in World War I (Infographic)

The key leaders involved in the outbreak of war.

Originally published 08/05/2014
How & Why Russia Forgot The Great War

Alexey Eremenko

Russians generally do not often speak of World War I.

Originally published 08/05/2014
A Global Guide to the First World War (interactive documentary)

Ten historians from 10 countries give a brief history of the first world war through a global lens.

Originally published 08/05/2014
On the Hundredth Anniversary of the Start of World War I, Remembering the Part Animals Played

Horses, dogs, pigeons—even glowworms—were crucial participants in the war to end all wars.

Originally published 08/04/2014
888,246 Ceramic Poppies Surround the Tower of London to Commemorate WWI

To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, ceramic artistPaul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper conceived of a staggering installation of ceramic poppies planted in the famous dry moat around the Tower of London.

Originally published 08/03/2014
A Soldier Poet, Baring His Soul

Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I Diaries Are Published Online

Originally published 08/02/2014
What Historians Get Wrong About The First World War

Stephen A. Schuker

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.

Originally published 08/01/2014
When We Think of Industrialization We Think of Henry Ford. We Should also Think of World War I.

William J. Astore

The age of mass warfare and mass destruction was both catalyst for and byproduct of the age of machinery and mass production.

Originally published 07/31/2014
First world war – a century on, time to hail the peacemakers

Adam Hochschild

On the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, we should remember those who tried to stop a catastrophe

Originally published 07/31/2014
World War I Anniversary: Five Historians, Two Questions

A century after the outbreak of World War I, can we now answer the eternal question -- who was to blame?

Originally published 07/30/2014
Europe notes 100th anniversary of World War I

A total of 76 current nations played a role in the 1914-1918 war.

Originally published 07/30/2014
While French historians take a common view of WW I, British and German don't

Sylvie Kauffmann

"While our German and British neighbors have been passionately debating theories about the origins of the war or its utility, all is quiet on the French front."

Originally published 07/29/2014
Why Did Women Begin Sporting Short Hairdos?

Kevin Kennedy

That’s just one of the many interesting questions addressed in an exhibit on World War I now on display in Berlin.

Originally published 09/30/2013
HNN EXCLUSIVE: Newly Discovered Document Reveals What Truman Thought about FDR Running for a Fourth Term

Anthony Clark

The letter, found by researcher Anthony Clark, is the only documented expression of Truman's feelings on the matter.

Originally published 07/28/2014
The Great War and the Great Recession: The Frightening Parallels

Iwan Morgan

Fast forward to the aftermath of the 2007-09 crisis to find what may be a premature optimism that the worst is over, rather like many in Western Europe thought in the 1920s after the Great War was over.