World War I

The Balfour Declaration, dated November 2, 1917, was a brief but momentous letter from Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation. In it, His Majesty’s Government expressed…

<p>In the hundred years since his death, features of Woodrow Wilson’s philosophy have become central to international politics and American foreign policy.</p>

<p>American Heritage Book Selection -- Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915-1933</p>

<p><span class="deck">The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">By freight train, on foot, and in commandeered trucks, thousands of unemployed veterans descended on a nervous capital at the depth of the Depression—and were run out of town by Army bayonets</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Negro cavalry regiment was John J. Pershing’s “home” in the service. From it came his nickname, and he never lost his affection for—or failed to champion—the valorous colored troopers he led.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The cantankerous Californian’s utterly candid opinions, over thirty years, of the Presidents he knew, the senators with whom he served, and the (to him) alarming changes in the America he loved</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the sumptuous history of transatlantic passenger travel it wasn’t all mahogany panelling and ten-course meals. Consider, for instance, war and seasickness</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> EQUIPMENT WAS HARD TO COME BY, RED TAPE WAS RAMPANT. BUT AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRANCE BUILT AN AMBULANCE CORPS THAT PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Carl Fisher thought Americans should be able to drive across their country, but it took a decade and a world war to finish his road</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW TWO FAMOUS FIGURES OF THE TWENTIES GREW UP, MET, AND FELL IN LOVE</span> </p>

<p>It became apparent that this influenza was a first-rate killer.</p>

<p>The doughboys numbered only 550 men -- the remnants of four battalions -- and were surrounded by Germans. Then they were given the order to attack.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A young poet’s memories of the old rural America in whose fields he worked for two sunny months while awaiting the call to service in the First World War</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A Marine Remembers the Battle for Belleau Wood</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> SENT ON A HOPELESSLY VAGUE ASSIGNMENT BY WOODROW WILSON, AMERICAN SOLDIERS FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEROCIOUS SQUABBLE AMONG BOLSHEVIKS, COSSACKS, CZECHS, JAPANESE, AND OTHERS</span> </p>

<p>A World War I soldier writes home about the Christmas holiday in his hospital, "one of the merriest, happiest seasons of my life"</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the Meuse-Argonne, this backwoods pacifist did what Marshal Foch saw as “the greatest thing accomplished by any private’ soldier of all the armies of Europe.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It was born in America, it came of age in America, and, in an era when foreign competition threatens so many of our industries, it still sweetens our balance of trade.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Walt Whitman said, “The real war will never get in the books.” The critic and writer Paul Fussell feels that the same sanitizing of history that went on after the 1860s has erased the national memory of what World War II was really like.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">75 years ago this spring, a very different America waded into the seminal catastrophe of the 20th century. World War I did more than kill millions of people; it destroyed the West’s faith in the very institutions that had made it the hope and envy of the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The sad lessons of 1919 are eloquent regarding today’s endlessly wretched situation in the Balkans.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY HAS NOT BEEN TIME ENOUGH TO EFFACE THE REMNANTS OF VIOLENCE ALONG A 400-MILE FRONT.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A TEXAS MARINE WHO DREW BEAUTIFULLY AND WROTE AS WELL AS HE DREW BECAME THE LAUREATE OF THE MEN WHO CHECKED THE LAST GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE. ALL BUT FORGOTTEN TODAY, HIS 1926 BESTSELLER REMAINS PERHAPS THE FINEST ACCOUNT OF AMERICANS IN THE GREAT WAR.</span></p>

<p>Seventy-five years after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.</p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The great struggles of our century have all been followed by tides of revulsion: Americans decided we were mad to have entered World War I; Russia should have been our enemy in World War II; the United States started the Cold War. Now, another such tide has risen in Europe, and it may be on its way here.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">There was no evidence that Captain Rosenbluth was a murderer, but Henry Ford set out to prove him one.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Donald Kagan, a historian of the ancient world believes that, in every era, people have reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that, to protect our national interests today, Americans must understand the choices that soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The newspaper baron Robert McCormick was a passionate isolationist, though his brief service in France in 1918 shone for him all his life and gave birth to an extraordinary museum.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the discovery of a long-forgotten trunk inspired an artist to spend years recording the quiet remnants of a wrenching military career</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Powered flight was born exactly one hundred years ago. It changed everything, of course, but most of all, it changed how this nation wages war.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">You can go there, too, even to the Bates Motel.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Pork Barrel</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> “The founding of the United States experience: 1763-1815”</span> </p>