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The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 190th installment in the series.

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern world. Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 188th installment in the series.

George Grosz, “Explosion,” via Centenaire.org

We're covering the events of World War I exactly 100 years later.

Hungarian brothers László and György Bíró are credited with inventing the pen we still use today.

In his engrossing new book, The Billion Dollar Spy, David E. Hoffman takes readers into the CIA’s Moscow station during the Cold War, telling the astonishing story of how spies recruited agents, and what happened when things went wrong.

Historically, the United States has planned to go to war with just about everyone. Here are a few of the more bizarre plans, from history and today.

Erik Sass is covering the events of World War I exactly 100 years later.

Everyone from New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has supposedly read the 2500-year-old text’s 13 chapters on the 13 aspects of warfare.

We're covering the events of World War I exactly 100 years later.

We're covering the final days of the Civil War exactly 150 years later.

Germans Surrender in SW Africa

10 Things to Know When Sneaking into North Korea

Terror Attacks on U.S. Capitol, J.P. Morgan

New Offensive on Eastern Front, First Battle of the Isonzo

Women at War

“Monstrous Chapters of History”

The Origin Story of the Ballpoint Pen

11 Amazing Facts About CIA Operations in the Soviet Union

Bryan Resigns Amid Neutrality Controversy

WWI Centennial: New Allied Attack at Gallipoli

4 Surprising Places the U.S. Planned to Invade

Young Turks Issue Deportation Decree

Italy Declares War on Austria-Hungary

Second Battle of Artois

Lusitania Sunk, Breakthrough on Eastern Front

9 Ways The Art of War Conquered the World

WWI Centennial: Gallipoli

WWI Centennial: Gas Attack at Ypres

British Defeat Turks at Shaiba

Fall of the South: Lee Surrenders

Armenian Persecution Mounts

St. Mihiel Offensive

Fall of Przemyśl

Disaster at the Dardanelles