In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

Known as the first true world war, the Seven Years' War reshaped global power across Europe, North America, and beyond. In ...

On Christmas Eve in 1914, a light snowfall began to dust the Western Front, unable to settle on the muddy, waterlogged ground ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

In December 1914, British and German soldiers fighting World War I unofficially stopped combat to celebrate Christmas. Known ...

A former history teacher analyzes the class basis of the World War I, who we can thank for ending it, and what we can learn from it. On more than one occasion, a student would ask "who were the good ...

This article, "Give Us More Shotguns!," appeared originally in the May 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The American Civil War foreshadowed the industrial era (and European military observers knew it). It was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the era, and arguably the first ...