The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

It was the biggest Russian victory during the First World War, and at the same time the most costly in terms of human lives.

In 1914, Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian gunman while out and about in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to established alliances and a period of ...

Southern antimilitarists on the eve of war -- Which war, whose fight? : white Southerners debate the Declaration of War and the draft, 1917 -- Fathers, farmers, and Christians -- Agrarian protest ...