Excerpts

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

Looking at color photographs of WWI feels like seeing a familiar scene through a different pair of eyeglasses.

The political context for one of the worst atrocities ever to take place on U.S. soil.

And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

John McCain's harrowing account of nearly six years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war, in his own words.

The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement.

Our horror of chemical agents is one of the great success stories of modern diplomacy.

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.

The needs and entrepreneurship of wounded soldiers have driven many of the most significant advances in prosthetic technology.

It's a short song with a complicated history.

How the U.S. military handled a shortage of prosthetic eyes for injured soldiers.

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.

An excerpt from a recently discovered memoir of World War I, "The Burning of the World."

A brief history of the Crispus Attucks Circle, an African American relief agency.

An collection of primary sources exploring the causes, duration, and aftermath of America's involvement in World War I.

In 1916, Randolph Bourne challenged widespread nativism by calling for a reconsideration of the “melting-pot” theory.

Considering six books on the outbreak of World War I and its place in history.

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

In the fight over Indiana’s Bloody Eighth, Democrats won the seat, but lost the larger narrative.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

What are the origins of the mechanical siren?

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

100 years ago, factory workers fought to hold companies accountable for their radium poisoning.

In 1932, twenty-thousand unemployed WWI veterans descended on Washington, DC to demand better treatment from the federal government.

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.

The high-water mark of the anti-immigrant and anti-German hysteria that gripped the nation during World War I.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

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

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.

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

The sound of antiwar protest in 1915.

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

Reflections on live-tweeting the Great War.

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

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

The outlandish "macaroni" style of 18th-century England blurred the boundaries of gender, as well as class and nationality.

Advertisements for the soft drink presented it as a soda revolution.

A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.

From voting rights to the electoral college, a brief explainer on three widespread misconceptions about voting.

Once reliably red, the official cause of O.C.’s passing is a case of the blue flu.

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.