American soldiers provided aid to children left behind by the war. Through the army newspaper Stars and Stripes and the American Red Cross, they would symbolically adopt French orphans.
How well do you know the 19th Amendment? When women achieved passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, they did not win the right to vote—despite repeated claims that they did.
What did the war mean in the lives of the men who fought it? Many twentieth-century ideas of how to raise an army and what it means to be a soldier took shape during WWI.
Dr. Scott Stephenson presents on the evolution of the German Empire, from a nation of wealth, unity, and resolve to one of despair and revolution in the aftermath of World War I.
For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson's charge to make the world "safe for democracy" carried life-or-death meaning.
The significance of WWI on the eastern front is immense - three European empires crashed down as a result of the First World War and from the wreckage came the establishment of new nations.
Join Dr. Leonard V. Smith, author of Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, for a conversation on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference exploring the question “What international system did...
1917 marked a pivotal shift in African Americans’ quest for civil rights, especially after Woodrow Wilson’s declaration that making the world safe for democracy had become America’s singular...
The peace settlements made at the end of the First World War are often blamed for creating the conditions which sent nations such as Germany and Japan down the road towards dictatorship and led and...
