There was another global event America and the rest of the globe was dealing with in 1918. World War I was still going on, with the United States getting involved in the conflict the year before. It ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Next year, 2018, marks the ...

As America grapples with the burgeoning coronavirus crisis, the federal government seems determined to repeat the mistakes made a century ago, when the worst pandemic in human history ravaged the ...

This unsigned article originally appeared in Kapinatyöläinen #13, 1993. The original title of the piece is "Luokkasota 1918" which translates plainly to Class War 1918, I have for clarification ...

The French film director Jean Cocteau declared that, “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” His assertion explains why some films seem dated today; ideas fall out of vogue. Today, GW Pabst’s ...

For the soldiers on the front lines, World War I introduced an unprecedented level of violence. But it was not the "the war to end all wars" — quite the contrary, writes guest author Jörn Leonhard.

Towards the fag end of June, 1918, The Times of India Bombay carried a brief story about a “fever epidemic” that was sweeping through the city. Workshops got shut; most offices discovered that their ...

The U.S. military has been forced by the coronavirus pandemic to make some serious changes in their operations. But the Pentagon, and especially the Navy, have also displayed a revealing resistance to ...