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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.

Civici Musei di Storia e Arte di Trieste, via Itinerari Grande Guerra

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.

Disaster At Loos

Huge Bombardment Opens Fall Offensive

12 Harrowing Facts About The Things They Carried

This widely read novel about war is more fact than fiction.

Prelude to Rebellion

10 Plans to Weaponize Animals

"Rats, explosive."

London Bombed, Lenin Calls for Revolution

New York Tribune via Chronicling America

Germany Backs Down, As Spy Scandals Erupt

George Pickow, Hulton Archive // Getty Images

Who's Buried in Westminster Abbey?

London's Westminster Abbey is not only a grand and glorious place of worship, but also the final resting place of hundreds of history's most famous figures.