World War I created many of the political, cultural, and economic fault lines of the world today. Pr
In November 2014, the MacArthur Memorial hosted a World War I Centennial Symposium. Dr. Holger Herw
In November 2014, the MacArthur Memorial hosted a World War I Centennial Symposium. Catrine Clay wa
The Allies and Central Powers employed hundreds of thousands of sea mines during the Great War. The
Some of the great heroes of World War I were the “aces” – pilots who were credited with bringing dow
As dusk arrived on December 24, 1914, it was a cold night on the Western Front. It had been five mo
1917 was a winter of gloom for the Allies. The British had lost more than 400,000 men in their fail
Dr. Lisa Budreau, author of Bodies of War: World War I and the politics of commemoration in America
World War I was a war of production and supply: whoever could feed their populations and soldiers, m
The North Atlantic is cold and stormy in October and November, and it loomed as a dreaded specter to
Situated on Hempstead Plain in Long Island, New York, Camp Mills was the primary training ground of
When the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, it had an absolutely miniscule standing army
Robert Dalessandro, Executive Director of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, visited the Memo
Author Stephen L. Harris visited the Memorial in October 2012 and gave a presentation on “The Fighti
On September 4, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II exulted: “It is the 35th day!” The 35th day of the war had
This podcast features an interview with Megan Good, the director of the J. Welles Henderson Archives
In the decades before World War I, all the European powers had secret plans to defend against invasi
Otto von Bismarck once predicted that some “foolish” thing in the Balkans would start a major war in
