WAR

As Bombs Fell on Paris, Marie Curie Went to War

First, Marie Curie tried to donate her Nobel Prize medals. When bank officials refused to melt them down, she donated her prize money to purchase war bonds instead.

WWI Centennial: British Victory at Gaza and the Balfour Declaration

The victory in Palestine would give Great Britain a central role in the formation of a Jewish homeland in the modern era.

WWI Centennial: Disaster At Caporetto

In the spring and summer of 1917, the momentum of events in the First World War seemed to favor the Allies. Then, on October 24-27, 1917, the other shoe dropped.

Russian Submarine Officer Who May Have Averted Nuclear War Will Be Awarded First Future of Life Prize

Without Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, World War III might have happened in 1962.

WWI Centennial: First Passchendaele, Rainbow Division Crosses the Atlantic

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 290th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Broodseinde and Poelcapelle

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 289th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Menin Road Ridge and Polygon Wood

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 288th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Germans Capture Riga, Kornilov Revolt

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 287th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Race Riot In Houston

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 286th installment in the series.

WWI Centennial: Salonika In Flames

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 285th installment in the series.

10 Facts About the Battle of Bunker Hill

Though the colonies were defeated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, American forces performed so impressively and inflicted so many casualties on their powerful opponent that most rebels took it as a moral victory.

WWI Centennial: Nightmare – Passchendaele

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 284th installment in the series.

The Annette Gero Collection, Photo by Tim Connolly, Shoot Studios

A New Museum Exhibition Showcases Quilts Made by Men During War

"War and Pieced" is billed as the first U.S. exhibition highlighting quilts made by men during times of war.

10 Things You Should Know About The Treaty Of Paris (1763)

The agreement transformed the political geography of North America.

WWI Centennial: Battle of Mărăști

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 283rd installment in the series.

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Study Suggests There's Water Beneath the Moon's Surface

And a lot of it.

5 Surprising Facts About the Battle of Dunkirk

With Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ winning critical acclaim, the world’s attention is once again focused on the historic events recounted in the film.

Workers in Quebec City Discover Potentially Live Cannonball Dating Back to the French and Indian War

"Old munitions like this are hard to predict … You never know to what point the chemicals inside have degraded."

WWI Centennial: Bolshevik Coup Attempt Fails

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 282nd installment in the series.

When Vlad the Impaler Repelled an Invasion With a Forest of Corpses

History remembers Vlad as the inspiration for 'Dracula,' but his war with an Ottoman sultan was just as gruesome as anything in Bram Stoker’s novel

14 Revolutionary Facts About Bastille Day

On July 14, 1789, Parisian rebels stormed the Bastille prison. Its sudden fall kicked off the French revolution, an Earth-shaking event whose echoes we still feel today.

WWI Centennial: Arabs Take Aqaba, Kerensky Offensive Fails

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 281st installment in the series.

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Winston Churchill’s Audacious Plan to Build an Aircraft Carrier Out of Ice

Is the secret to building an unsinkable aircraft carrier hiding in your ice cube tray?

WWI Centennial: Russian Black Sea Fleet Mutinies

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 280th installment in the series.

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