Ten suffragists are arrested at the White House for carrying placards demanding the right to vote for women. Four of the demonstrators are sentenced to prison.

Battleship crews protest poor food and living conditions. On September 9, the mutiny is revealed to the Reichstag and two of the mutiny’s leaders are executed days later.

In the first two weeks of battle, British artillery units fire 4,283,550 shells at German lines near the Flemish town of Passchendaele. The campaign ends by Nov. 10.

In Washington, D.C., a blindfolded Secretary of War Newton D. Baker draws the first capsules from a large fishbowl in a lottery for the first American draftees, as prescribed under the Selective...

The King of Great Britain gives up all of his German titles and formal associations with the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and renames his dynasty ‘the House of Windsor.’...

General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), greets the infantrymen and engineers as they step ashore. “They are sturdy rookies - we shall make great...

Heywood Broun, a correspondent with the American Expeditionary Forces, stated, “American blacks in stevedore service were the first American arrivals in France in June 1917. They had been...

The new law allows the government to censor publications sent through the mail; it makes it a crime to aid enemy nations or interfere with the draft.

Folkestone, England is bombed by German Gotha airplanes leading to 95 civilian casualties while 195 are injured. The concept of strategic bombing of civilian targets introduces the reality of &ldquo...

On the first day of the draft, millions of American men register for service under the Selective Service Act signed on May 18. Throughout the country, 9,586,508 men, ages 21 to 31, register at their...