September 1914. As the First World War unfolded, a little-known but pivotal encounter transpired in the Indian Ocean—The Battle of Zanzibar. Here, the German Kaiserliche Marine clashed with the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A war that would eclipse all other conflicts up until that time, taking the nickname “The Great War,” and what we know as World War I, began on July 28, 1914. The war traced ...

The summer of 1914 was filled with hesitation, fear, and fatal mistakes. This episode reveals how Germany’s anti-war protests ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2019. The story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 is often considered “played out,” especially in historical circles, but it is a compelling tale; ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ...

Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst‘s Ring of Fire is about the opening salvos of the First World War in 1914. Quickly into Ring, one soon realizes the Lincolnesque sentiment from a 1960s Star ...

Dominic and Tom launch into one of the most consequential events of all time: the outbreak of the First World War.

Why does the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- the event that lit the fuse of World War One 100 years ago Saturday -- still resonate so powerfully? Virtually nobody believes World War Three ...

First lady Jill Biden, accompanied by U.S. World War I Centennial Commission Chairman Terry Hamby, speaks during a WWI remembrance event in the East Room of the White House. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep thousands of letters of soldiers' relatives Letters are testimony of war's devastation MADRID, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A ...