CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A war that would eclipse all other conflicts up until that time, taking the nickname “The Great War,” and what we know as World War I, began on July 28, 1914. The war traced ...
Veteran Affairs Canada, Submitted The nations of Europe were at war soon after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ...
One of Canada’s first casualties in the first World War was from Nova Scotia and is featured in a Parks Canada exhibit at ...
One hundred seven years ago, the Great War ended. On November 11th, 1918, the final bullet had been fired. The conflict that ...
After the 1905 revolution, Russia was supposed to reform. Instead, Tsar Nicholas II shut down his own parliament, jailed his ...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...
The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...
Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...
Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst‘s Ring of Fire is about the opening salvos of the First World War in 1914. Quickly into Ring, one soon realizes the Lincolnesque sentiment from a 1960s Star ...
First lady Jill Biden, accompanied by U.S. World War I Centennial Commission Chairman Terry Hamby, speaks during a WWI remembrance event in the East Room of the White House. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...