Is no one else haunted by the thought that European economic history may be reflecting itself in the mirror?
Posted 05.31.2012
Unearthed as part of a European history project, a postcard sent during World War I by a wounded Adolf Hitler has brought attention to the earlier yea...
Cracked.com | Posted 04.20.2012
Some one-liners uttered by historical figures during the heat of battle are so awesome that they seem right out of a bombastic Hollywood war movie. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- A Michigan filmmaker and the daughter of Frank Buckles, who was the last surviving American veteran of World War I, fired the latest sal...
TresSugar | Posted 02.08.2012
The entire plot of the first season of PBS's standout show Downton Abbey revolves around the cultural customs and laws of heirs, women's rights, and m...
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Posted 02.01.2012
By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff All Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wants is for his hometown's World War I memorial to have the status of a national monument...
Laura Stepp | Posted 03.27.2012
This movie is not just another sentimental story about a boy and his horse. It conveys as clearly as any movie I've seen the utter horrors of war and the moments of grace that can occur between enemies.
The Huffington Post | Megan Arellano | Posted 01.23.2012
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and local veterans joined a chorus of voices against the proposed rededication of the city's loc...
Diamonte Hamlett | Posted 03.11.2012
I feel eerily connected to the story of The Tiger's Wife and I'll share that reason in a moment. This richly woven story explores the complex relationship between a grandfather and granddaughter, a fascinating line of consanguinity that has gone mostly unexplored in mainstream fiction until now.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 03.04.2012
Stephen Spielberg works his magic one more time in a beautifully crafted movie titled War Horse. This tale of a horse and its experiences during World War I make for an emotional journey and also a rewarding one.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 01.17.2012
In To End All Wars, author Adam Hochschild introduces us to a panoply of great humans whose desperate warnings about the insanity of armed struggle resonate powerfully through history.
Posted 01.09.2012
On November 11 each year, thousands around the world pause to honor members of the armed forces who have lost their lives since World War I. Armistice...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia and federal leaders are gathering at the D.C. War Memorial on Thursday morning to reopen the long-neglected and new...
John Harden | Posted 01.08.2012
Read about the 2011 Tribute at The Cleburne Times-Review. ...
Posted 12.22.2011
Very few can boast 26 Hollywood films, surviving a World War I battlefield, saving Warner Brothers from bankruptcy, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fa...
Bloomberg | Sylvia Nasar | Posted 11.13.2011
Unlike the movies, life rarely permits second takes. But the Second World War gave John Maynard Keynes, the patron saint of government activism, and F...
Kevin Bunkley | Posted 10.24.2011
It is possible that President Obama is reverting back to a new version of Wilsonian diplomacy in order to let the Arab world sort itself out, instead of directly affecting the outcome with U.S. intervention.
Jim Worth | Posted 09.27.2011
The battle in Congress over taxes is -- historically -- unprecedented and unAmerican. We are in a time of war! Our government sent our young men and...
Posted 09.24.2011
Art Bites is a HuffPost Arts series of cool videos, news and events we want you to know about, in brief. For this installment, we've included some awe...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 09.22.2011
WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army's flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors...
Dorian de Wind | Posted 09.12.2011
"After a 93-year quest," Johnson's supporters believe they have finally built an "ironclad case" to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Sgt. Henry Johnson, an African-American hero who "fought with uncommon bravery in World War I."
Posted 08.31.2011
Germany in the 1920s would have been an exciting time for an artist. The First World War had ended and a period of stability and creativity, known as ...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.08.2011
There's no denying it: the digital age is unforgivingly fast-paced. But how can we move forward if we never take a moment to reflect on where we've...
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 06.30.2011
Well, I don't know about the rest of you but I'm weddinged out. There hasn't been this much media coverage of an event since Lindsay Lohan's last arre...
AP | By KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 07.04.2011
SYDNEY -- Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth...
Peter Fox-Penner, PhD | Posted 05.22.2012