On Memorial Day it is fitting to honor the fallen by reading the works of wartime poets. And no one wrote of war and death like the soldiers of Great Britain during World War I.
On this Veterans Day in 1921, an unknown soldier of World War I was given a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, and laid to rest in…
The film 1917, set in World War I, has already won two Golden Globe awards, for best drama and best director. Now the WWI movie is in the Oscar…
For one remarkable period of time, peace reigned on the battlefields of World War I.
The Bladensburg Cross, a World War I memorial to 49 soldiers of Prince Georges County, Maryland, will be allowed to remain standing. The United States Supreme Court…
You can file this one under “Destruction of Common Culture”. Or you can file this under gutting the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme…
Peter Jackson, the New Zealand producer and film director, created what I believe to be his most splendid opus yet. However, it didn’t involve Hobbits, or Rings,…
On November 11, it will be 100 years since the Armistice — that event when on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”…
You may see them in front of your supermarket or at a small town parade, elderly men and women handing out red paper poppies. I strongly suspect…
It sure doesn’t take much to trigger the BuzzFeed staff these days. Especially those who are really ignorant of history. Case in point: Leticia Miranda, BuzzFeed consumer reporter, wondered…
On the night before the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump decided to toss some red meat to his storm troopers by relating a little history lesson about…
Recently my mother has been doing quite a bit of geneological research. One of the more noteworthy people she has found in our family tree is a…
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