Jockey Frankie Dettori holds up the Penn Mile Trophy after guiding First World War to victory in the $400,000 Penn Mile at Penn National Racecourse on Friday May 31, 2024. Photo By Bill ...

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’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

A former history teacher analyzes the class basis of the World War I, who we can thank for ending it, and what we can learn from it. On more than one occasion, a student would ask "who were the good ...

An exhibition at LACMA traces the roots of modern media to the Great War, when propaganda mobilized the masses, and questions whether the brutal truths of the battlefield can ever really be ...