Writings at the time of WWI aimed to construct a religiously diverse and conflicted America into a virtuous, Christian nation. This narrative continued in the cemeteries for the war heroes.
High school students in America learn two very different perspectives on World War I in their U.S. and world history classes. But which of these competing viewpoints should take center stage?
We may have been entering a new form of global war for the last three decades – in slow motion – in the Middle East and North Africa.
It was ‘the Good War,’ the ‘war to end all wars.’ So why has World War I been largely forgotten by Americans?
As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled abroad – where many had their first encounters with the marine predators.
Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
Spain has long avoided addressing the fact that tens of thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazis, who collaborated with Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco.
A historian looks back at the success – and failure – of mass mobilization efforts by Russia and the Soviet Union.
Many associate post-World War I culture with Hemingway and Fitzgerald’s Lost Generation. But for black artists, writers and thinkers, the war changed the way they saw their past and their future.
