WAR
“The End Looks Farther Off”
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 217th installment in the series.
A Second Christmas At War
Invitation to the Devil – Verdun
Haig Takes Command
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 214th installment in the series
Agreeing Armageddon – The Somme
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 213th installment in the series.
World War II Advice: Defeat The Enemy By Being A Terrible Employee
7 Foods That Have Led to War
Whether the cause of conflict was threats to a nation’s entire grain supply or the loss of a lone pig, these foods all ended up smack in the middle of war.
Huge Storm Lashes Gallipoli
The New KKK
12 Intense Facts About Platoon
Before it won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1986, 'Platoon' made waves simply by doing something new: showing the Vietnam War from the perspective of someone who fought in it.
Serbian “Great Retreat” Begins
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 210th installment in the series.
The Fart That Started a Revolution
When Egyptian rebel Amasis was confronted by a king's messenger, he said he had a message of his own—and then farted.
A Brand-New National Historic Park Will Remember the Manhattan Project
Seventy years after World War II's end, three project sites where the atomic bombs were made will be preserved for the public.
Failure at Fourth Isonzo
Female Sex Hormone May Save Injured Soldiers
The DOD recently gave a $10 million contract to a University of Alabama research team to begin human safety testing trials on a synthetic estrogen that may be able to save the lives of wounded soldiers and trauma patients.
Serbia In Collapse
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 208th installment in the series.
Italians Defeated At Third Isonzo
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 207th installment in the series.
France Confers Citizenship, Conscription
WWI Centennial: Germans Execute Edith Cavell
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 205th installment in the series.
Central Powers Invade Serbia
Pristine Civil War Cannons Removed From South Carolina's Pee Dee River
They've sat at the bottom of the South Carolina river ever since they were pushed overboard 150 years ago.