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WWI Centennial: Wilson Presents ‘Fourteen Points,’ House Approves Suffrage Amendment

What vision would President Wilson present for the post-war world?

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WWI Centennial: Last Christmas At War

The Christmas of 1917 was the fourth during the war—and would also be the last.

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Wreck of Australian World War I Submarine Found After 103 Years

Australia's first sub, the AE1, disappeared off Papua New Guinea on September 14, 1914.

WWI Centennial: An Overview

Catch up with the major turning points of World War I as the final climactic year gets underway.

The Grave of a Heroic War Horse Gets Landmark Protection in England

Blackie nobly served his owner, Lieutenant Leonard Comer Wall, during World War I.

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WWI Centennial: Armistice on the Eastern Front

The Bolsheviks had to move swiftly to appease rank-and-file Russian soldiers, and that meant meeting their main demand: peace.

General Allenby enters Jerusalem at the Jaffa gate, December 11, 1917

WWI Centennial: The British Capture Jerusalem

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WWI Centennial: Horror in Halifax

The massive explosion on December 6, 1917 was one of the worst accidents of the entire war.

NOVA SCOTIA ARCHIVES AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

A Mystery Shipwreck in Canada Might Be Tied to the 1917 Halifax Explosion

A century ago, a French cargo ship filled with explosives ignited spectacularly in Nova Scotia's Halifax Harbor. Researchers think that an unidentified schooner lying at the bottom of the harbor may have been another victim of the blast.

John Warwick Brooke, the Imperial War Museum // Public Domain

WWI Centennial: Surprise Attack At Cambrai

Could the British forces' new tactics, with massed tanks and no preparatory bombardment, deliver a breakthrough and end the stasis of trench warfare?

Yakov Vladimirovich Steinberg, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

WWI Centennial: The Second Bolshevik Coup Attempt Succeeds

"To destroy the old government and to establish the new required only a bare 24 hours."

WWI Centennial: British Victory at Gaza and the Balfour Declaration

The victory in Palestine would give Great Britain a central role in the formation of a Jewish homeland in the modern era.

WWI Centennial: Disaster At Caporetto

In the spring and summer of 1917, the momentum of events in the First World War seemed to favor the Allies. Then, on October 24-27, 1917, the other shoe dropped.

WWI Centennial: First Passchendaele, Rainbow Division Crosses the Atlantic

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 290th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Broodseinde and Poelcapelle

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 289th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Menin Road Ridge and Polygon Wood

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 288th installment in the series.

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Found: A Sunken German World War I-Era Submarine

Researchers located the UB II-type dive boat—a smaller submarine that typically plagued coastal waters—off the coast of Belgium, around 82 to 98 feet below the North Sea.

Boston University Students Discover 1915 Time Capsule Hidden in Storage

Emma Purtell, Sarah Mankey, and Adam Mumford found the relic while sorting through old university records.

WWI Centennial: Germans Capture Riga, Kornilov Revolt

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 287th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Race Riot In Houston

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 286th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Salonika In Flames

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 285th installment in the series.

15 Facts About Franz Marc's Yellow Cow

By 1907, the German Expressionist was focusing his work on capturing the spiritualism found in animals.

WWI Centennial: Nightmare – Passchendaele

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 284th installment in the series.

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Telegraph From the 'Lusitania' Has Been Recovered From the Ocean Floor

The ship sank off the Irish coast 102 years ago.

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