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The so-called 'Spanish flu' didn't actually come from Spain. What else do people often misunderstand about this famous crisis?
An Iranian general's killing sparked fears of war and a draft in the US. Those are old fears, says a scholar who contends it's a myth that during the two world wars, men signed up in droves to fight.
Largely unknown today, Bourbaki was the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. There’s just one problem: Bourbaki never existed.
The first two-minute silence in 1919 was designed as a moment that could unite people across many divides. It has become a collective means of commemoration for all manner of tragedies
The politics of the war continue to resonate in our discussions of national identity and purpose.
When the US entered World War I in 1917, military chaplains catered to majority white and Christian soldiers. Today the armed forces recognize over 200 denominations and religious groups.
The landscape artist bravely left her aristocratic life behind to help save lives on the Italian front.
Memories can be powerful tools to address humanity’s most difficult political, sociological and environmental problems
There is no weapon more visceral than the bayonet. It encourages an intimate form of killing, and during WW1, Australia troops plunged, parried and stabbed with great vigour.
Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation -- though, after World War I, they came close.
In a world that is unrecognisable to that of 1914, should the British army be relying on recruitment tactics that are a century old?
While clear-eyed about the country's injustices, Melville never succumbed to cynicism. On the author's bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his ability to fuse realism with idealism.
An expert explains why war memorials with religious symbols can have different meanings in a diverse society.
In 1918, in Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, a German sculptor created a bust of Indigenous soldier Douglas Grant. For decades, the whereabouts of this nationally significant sculpture were unknown - until now.
Sir Alan Herbert's 1919 novel was based on a true story and highlighted the injustice of executing shell-shocked soldiers for cowardice.
Russia isn't the only nation suspected of training marine mammals for military use – the US, UK, and Ukraine have all done so in the past.
In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Anzac stories are often coloured by racism and ongoing injustices that negate the myth of Anzac 'mateship'.
Words are as important as pictures for helping us come to terms with such a huge cultural loss.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
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Reader in Modern History, Brunel University London
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Twentieth Century History, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, UNSW
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University
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