Anthem for a Doomed Youth, Futility, and An Irish Airman Foresees his Death. The titles of these First World War poems alone tell a tale of despair and hopelessness. Yet despite the brutality of the ...

“If you sympathized with Germany, then Morgan was your ultimate enemy,” says Christopher Capozzola, associate professor of history at MIT, in American Experience’s film The Great War.

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the war on April 6, 1917, The Great War, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Great War, The Atlantic has published a special commemorative edition featuring dispatches from soldiers at the front and articles by such major ...