Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth caused a stir when, pursuant to President Trump’s long overdue purge of content deemed to promote DEI, he absurdly flagged the name Enola Gay for removal, ...

Now in its third year, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken on the hallmarks of a prolonged conflict. Beyond its ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

The klaxon sounds on the telephone. It is horrifying, startling. The purpose of the klaxon when it sounds on Israeli cellphones is to warn civilians that incoming ballistic missiles and drones are on ...

When the German U-boats targeted the Lusitania with a torpedo, the ship sank more quickly than expected. Here's why that happened according to modern reports.

A World War I-era submarine, the USS F-1, lost in 1917 due to a collision, has been located over a century later by a joint expedition. The wreck, remarkably intact at over 1,300 feet deep, is ...

Explore the history of the Princess Mary Christmas gift box, a brass or silver tin containing gifts intended for all members of the armed forces of the British Empire on Christmas Day 1914 during ...

More than 18,000 New Zealanders lost their lives in World War 1. You can find out more about them in this interactive graphic: it commemorates 17,767 WW1 deaths recorded by Auckland Museum.

Trench warfare during World War 1 was especially traumatic for the many soldiers who participated in it, with people having ...

From RTÉ Radio 1's History Show, historians Catriona Pennell and Paul Rouse discuss the Christmas 1914 truce and separate fact from fiction Of all the things that happened on that day, the ...

On August 4, 1914, when Great Britain declared war on Germany, thousands of Irishmen were already in service with the British Army. Before the end of the first year of fighting, another 80,000 ...

The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been replaced by just two to mark the ...