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World War I
July 4, 2014
Simon Heffer
Historians Fought About World War I the Moment It Began. They're Still Fighting.
April 15, 2014
Rebecca West
Even Rebecca West Had Trouble Reading Henry James
April 2, 2014
Ali Wyne
The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe
March 26, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
President Obama Gave a Terrible Speech Celebrating World War I
Whatever happened to opposing wars that should never have been authorized?
March 13, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Germany Looks at Russia and Ukraine and Sees 1914
January 26, 2014
What Can 1914 Tell Us About 2014?
The disturbing parallels between pre-WWI and today
January 26, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Will the Next World War Start in the Middle East?
June 4, 2013
Michael Kazin
The Forgotten President
Woodrow Wilson was as important as FDR or LBJ. Why aren't we celebrating his 100th anniversary?
April 28, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The Greatest English Poet You Haven't Heard of
The wisdom of a poet in nature and in war
May 27, 1996
Ferdinand Reyher
A Soldier Explains What It Was Like In the World War I Trenches
May 2, 1934
MagazineThe New Republic
Exit, Versailles
Of all the issues raised by Germany’s National Socialist movement, its promise to scrap the Versailles Treaty has probably appealed more strongly to the Germans than any other.
February 23, 1921
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Two Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
September 1, 1917
MagazineJohn Dewey
Conscription of Thought
Absence of thought is the chief enemy to freedom of mind.
July 28, 1917
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MagazineJohn Dewey
The Future of Pacifism
The future of the profound American desire for peace is a topic which is intimately connected with the war itself.
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September 30, 1916
Francis Hackett
The Greatest Novel
The triumph of War and Peace
July 1, 1916
MagazineRandolph Bourne
A Moral Equivalent for Universal Military Service
We want action, but we do not want military action.

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