40 maps that explain World War I by Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014 One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the ...

In August 1914, National Geographic magazine published a map of Europe and the Balkan States, subsequently to be the scene of one of the bloodiest conflicts in history—World War I. Editor in ...

A century ago today, on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, marking the beginning of World War I. A month earlier, on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated ...

After World War I, the government asked U.S. families if they wanted their dead buried at home. Forty thousand said yes. In May,1921, President Harding paid tribute to a shipload of 5,000 fallen ...