The French historian, Georges-Henri Soutou, calls this period of late 1916 and early 1917, and the flurry of efforts to bring the war to an end, the "tournant," the great turning. He is right.

The titles of these First World War poems alone tell a tale of despair and hopelessness. Yet despite the brutality of the Great War, soldiers were able to endure a drawn-out conflict. How did they ...

A moving eight-episode documentary saga that recreates the devastation of the Great War through fourteen unique perspectives, recounted through letters and diaries. These subjective views of "everyday ...

W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into the Great War, a man named George Creel wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Creel was a journalist who had ...

Celebrated actor Robert Mitchum only received one Oscar nomination in his career despite being a legendary cinematic figure ...

“If you sympathized with Germany, then Morgan was your ultimate enemy,” says Christopher Capozzola, associate professor of history at MIT, in American Experience’s film The Great War.

One of the great mysteries of the Fallout world remains who exactly dropped the first nuclear bombs that started the Great War. In 2023, Tim Cain, the co-creator of the first Fallout game, noted ...

US entry into WWI assured a decisive Allied victory, but it also assured a victory for politically-connected US bankers who ...

If you want to start the year with a war movie, these are some of the best that are streaming now, including Civil War, Sisu, ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Great War, The Atlantic has published a special commemorative edition featuring dispatches from soldiers at the front and articles by such major ...