First World War

Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

During the First World War, Britain was nearly starved into submission, as so many ships were lost to German submarines. Basics such as butter, egg...

When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the wo...

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the eve...

World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans ...

Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and...

Siblings are our longest lasting relationships. Narratives of the Great War abound with the war stories of brothers and sisters. Their emotional ex...