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.
Shortly after World War I, a white marble sarcophagus was erected in Arlington Cemetery where an unknown American soldier was laid to rest, representing all who not only gave their lives, but also...
Dr. Michael Neiberg, historian and author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of War in 1914, discusses a more nuanced approach to thinking about the "road to war," moving beyond the of...
Award-winning historians Shawn Faulkner and Scott Stephenson of the U.S Army Command and General Staff College examine how the French and German high commands envisioned “the next great war,” and...
The dynamics of the Allied blockade, the ongoing escalation of German actions leading to the Battle of Jutland and the decision by the Germans to turn again to unrestricted submarine warfare as a to...
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.
