The United States was not kind to the Revolutionary War veterans who had created […]
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A Powder Keg Ready to Blow
Coal miners toiling in the bowels of the earth kept American industry humming in […]
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The Death of Landscape
The British soldier artists of the Great War confronted a world in which nature itself seemed a victim
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Europe 1914
The Trumpet, by Edward Thomas Rise up, rise up, And, as the trumpet […]
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Outfoxing the Allies in German East Africa
Led by imaginative commander Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck, vastly outnumbered German and native forces were able to tie down more than 300,000 Allied troops in East Africa during World War I.
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“These Hideous Weapons”
During the first winter of World War I, the rocky hills around Verdun developed […]
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The Unreal City
Think of the Western Front as a great metropolis, whose chief industry was not production but destruction. From 1914 until 1918 it was the largest city on earth
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An Ace for the Czar
Aviation pioneer Boris Sergievsky began his flying career in the World War I air battles over the Eastern Front.
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The Breaking of Armies
In 1917 the British mustered their resources for one last great offensive to break through German positions outside Ypres.