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World War I / WWI

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UNR postcard (ca. 1918), Ukrainians face invading Russia. Caption: “Our enemies die like the dew in the sun and we brothers will rule in our turn.” From the author’s collection.
Ukrainian Independence: From Versailles 1 to Versailles 2
Gavrilo Princip with Archduke Ferdinand and Sophie in background
Gavrilo Princip and the Beginning of World War I
Group of people wearing masks
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
Alert soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate, during the Spartacist Uprising
Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution
A COVID-19 anti-lockdown protestor in Vancouver, Canada, May 2020
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
illustration of assassination by Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip: Puppet Assassin or Hero of the People
Two women in masks in 1918
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Amritsar Massacre
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
1917 Socialist-Realist worker image
The October Revolution in Russia
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies.
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
An influenza hospital at Camp Funston
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916
Legacies of the Great War
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920
The October Revolution in Russia
Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918
Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.
On the Armenian Genocide
Book Cover of The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 By: Bruno Cabanes
10/13/2014: Hot off the Presses: War and Humanitarianism
This universally recognized symbol of the poppy is evoked every Remembrance Day. Source, Charles Pachter.
What Have We Learned from The Great War?: Canadian Historians' Views
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Memories of the Great War
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
President Warring G. Harding at Walter Reed Hospital in March of 1921.
People Were Skeptical about Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy Precedents

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