On 27 July 1914 the Austrian foreign minister Berchtold requested Emperor Franz Joseph to sign the declaration of war, on the express ground...

The Original Blue Devils Tonight #1 Ranked Duke University's basketball team plays their opening game of the Sweet Sixteen stage of the ...

Stretch June 1916 a little, adding a day at each end—31 May and 1 July. This minor astronomical adjustment allows adding two monumental even...

Click on Images to Enlarge American artist John Singer's Sargent's Gassed —a dramatic and powerfully moving painting of a column of ...

By John Guttman Osprey, 2009 Reviewed by Dale Thompson The Breguet M-5 Air Speed 88 mph, Ceiling 14,110 ft Jon Guttman is well known for the...

To its participant nations, the requirements  of the First World War brought hitherto unknown sacrifice and change to all aspects of daily l...

As part of Missouri's commemoration of the WWI Centennial, a tremendous collection of war-related images were gathered under the state-s...

  Prewar —Still Life with Metronome ,  1909  Georges Braque (1882–1963) was a modern artist who painted in the Cubist style. Before the war,...

Wojciech Korfanty (born 20 April 20 1873, Siemianowice, Upper Silesia, Ger. [now in Poland]—died 17 August 1939, Warsaw) was a political lea...

British 60-Pounder at Ypres, Early War The Story Begins Here James Patton When the Race to the Sea was over, and the opposing forces were bo...

It All Started When the BEF Arrived  The dramatic and tragic story of the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell is so moving that it overwhelms th...