Tempest in Texas: The Controversial Courts-Martial of an All-Black Regiment
A few months after the United States entered World War I, another war broke out in Houston
Tour WWI Battlefields From the Comfort — and Safety — of Your Own Home This Summer
The National WWI Museum and Memorial is offering to break up the drudgery of quarantine by hosting virtual battlefield tours across France.
The Wipers Times: British Humor in the Trenches
British soldiers in World War I laughed in the face of danger with a mock “newspaper” known as The Wipers Times
The U.S. 1st Infantry Division in Photos
America's 1st Infantry Division has served with distinction in war for more than a century
German Failure at Chemin des Dames: How They Lost in 1918
A German feint over the Chemin des Dames in May 1918 gained more ground than expected before devolving into a logistical nightmare
Book Review: Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars
Jim Crossley highlights the Royal Navy career of Admiral Roger Keyes, who served Britain through both World Wars
‘War Remains’: WWI Museum’s Latest Virtual Reality Experience Takes Viewers into the Trenches
"Audiences will undergo the annihilation of innocence caused by the First World War and bear witness to the emergence of modern warfare"
Engineering Victory
Given their expertise with explosives, tunnelers like Coulson Norman Mitchell were repurposed and sent forward to decommission German demolition charges
The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion
A poet's tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I
Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
Revolt in the Ranks: The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis E. Goodier Sr.
In 1915 a group of disgruntled airmen in the U.S. Signal Corps declared war on their superiors. The consequences were far reaching
Nightmare on the Western Front
In 1918 E. Allen Pastelnick recounted some of his most harrowing experiences in World War I in a letter to his former history professor
Billy Mitchell’s Aerial Blitzkrieg
A century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts’: Author Raymond Chandler and the Great War
“Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire,” Raymond Chandler would later write, “nothing is ever the same again.”
National WWI Museum and Memorial Now Has Great War GIFs for Every Occasion
Feeling happy? Mad? Sad? The museum’s got a GIF for that
The Gun that Started the Great War: The Browning M1910
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, used an M1910 to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand
