First World War

The U.S. greeted the outbreak of the First World War with disbelief, but by late 1916 thousands of Americans were already personally involved in the war

Both sides in the Great War strove to create tensions within their enemies. And Islamic loyalties were a prime target.

The Battle of the Somme’s horrific futility dominates our memories, yet there are aspects of the battle that pointed, however weakly, to how and why the war would finally end

For Africa the First World War “was both the culmination of European imperialism and the beginning of its decline."

Vast battalions of Chinese labourers were shipped through Canada to work on the front lines of Europe, many of them to their deaths

The naval Battle of Jutland in 1916, the hinge year of the Great War, upended neutrals around the world

The latest in our monthly series looking at 1916, the year that marked the point of no return in the First World War

The year 1916 marked the point of no return in the First World War. A look at the titanic French-German struggle at Verdun

A new sculpture in Ottawa celebrates the ‘beauty and power’ of John McCrae’s ’In Flanders Fields’, 100 years old on May 3

Gas was used as a weapon for the first time at Ypres. It earned Canadians a reputation purchased in blood—and produced a poem you know.