WAR

Could Texas ever be returned to Mexico? In 1917, Germany tried.

In 1830, King William I of Netherlands celebrated his birthday with an opera. The performance would help destroy his country.

The attempted assassination of the Bolshevik leader set off a campaign of extreme violence.

Take a tour of Belfast's eeriest works of public art.

In 1746, tartan kilts were outlawed in Scotland. That ban would help the garment become world-famous.

He was called the fiercest warrior in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

A reporter coined the name.

Even German children knew the end of the war was near.

The final German offensive finally peters out.

Some went to prison. Others went into business.

Anne Frank was captured by the Nazis on this date in 1944.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened.

By splitting the French and British near Amiens and pushing the latter into the sea, there was still a chance Germany could win the war

French civilians celebrated July 4 almost as enthusiastically as the American troops.

Allies take control of the strategic forest northeast of Paris.

Scientists at UT Austin have developed an inexpensive, portable way to detect nerve agents in the field, and it starts with toy bricks.

The U.S. doesn’t even crack the top 100.

As the saying goes, "Great oaks from little acorns grow."

U.S. troops began to turn the tide of war as soon as they arrived in Europe.

Like other flu epidemics, the 1918 H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was a zoonosis—a disease that spreads from animals to humans.

The Czech Legion developed a remarkable phase of railroad-based warfare.

The second blow of the final German offensive on the Western Front was designed to conquer the British before American reinforcements arrived.

Any dog can fight. But only one could help win the Great War.