"Joe, don't this remind you o' the night when the outfit was movin' up to the front in Argonne?" "Yes. Onl...

"Do ye favor this here soldiers' bonus?" "Well, it's like this: if I sh'd fall into the crick and you'...

Running a blog that thrives on old periodicals means constantly pouring through moldering magazines and newspapers in search of the odd and...

"Believe me! This is the last time I'll lead this pack of cowards!" Life Magazine, January 5, 1922

Two hundred years ago today, in the Flemish city of Ghent, two combatants sat down across from each other to sign a treaty ending two yea...

Behold the tank as imagined by designers in California back in 1917. The design steals from the British tanks present on the battlefields...

Mushroom Cloud over Nagasaki as seen from Koyagi-jima on August 9, 1945 Today marks the 69th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic b...

Punch Magazine, August 1914 The last we touched base with Austria-Hungary and their German allies, they'd sent an ultimatum to Serbi...

On this date in 1812 James Madison signed the declaration that started the War of 1812 with Great Britain. War was opposed by a sizable mino...