History in the News

British Pvt. John Parr set off on his reconnaissance bike on the lookout for German troops amid the rolling farmland and woods south of Brussels in August 1914.

There's still a place where buzzing biplanes swoop in pursuit of German triplanes, where pilots in open cockpits let their scarves flutter in the wind.

The sights and sounds of World War I flight are recreated regularly at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome north of New York City.

The sights and sounds of World War I flight are recreated regularly at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome north of New York City.

World War I resources at the National Archives at Atlanta offer valuable historical data.

In what is almost assuredly not a coincidence, Hillary Clinton 's book Hard Choices came out around the same time a number of books critical of the Clintons did.

The battles of World War I took place largely in the trenches. And a walk through those trenches 100 years after the first shots were fired reveals a stunning collection of artwork carved into the walls by soldiers waiting for the war to come to them.

France on Thursday paid tribute to socialist Jean Jaures, one of its greatest political heroes, a century after he was assassinated on the eve of World War I which he had tirelessly fought to prevent.

According to Sky News Australia, former President Bill Clinton said just hours before the 9/11 attacks that he could have killed bin Laden.

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is getting a temporary $600,000 exhibit that will include a simulation of a World War I trench.

President Higgins departs on an official visit to Lorient, France on Friday 1st August for the 'Festival Interceltique de Lorient' and departs France for Belgium on Sunday for two World War 1 Commemoration Ceremonies; at Liege and Mons, on Monday 4th August.

Phil Goff said National's refusal to implement a recommendation for a payment for funeral expenses was 'mean spirited and penny pinching.'

One wishes Barack Obama and John Kerry more luck in Ukraine and the Middle East than Neville Chamberlain had in Munich.

Judicial Watch said Wednesday that it has obtained documents showing that Hillary Clinton's State Department rubber-stamped more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews of proposed speaking and consulting engagements for her husband, Bill Clinton, which the group says helped the former president earn $48 million.

This amazing tool allows you to discover the records of one million casualties of World War I - searchable by name, street, town or city Harold Jenkins, from Werfa Street, in Roath, Cardiff, was just 15, when he died on March 1, 1917.

Bunyan Meeting and John Bunyan Museum are transforming the large hall back into the canteen set-up for soldiers during World War I, on Saturday, August 2, between 10.30am and 3.30pm.

THE lights will be out at Chichester District Council's headquarters on Thursday, August 4, between 10pm and 11pm, to mark the hour that Britain entered the first world war, 100 years ago.

Precisely 100 years ago this morning, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. At first sight, just a confrontation between a decrepit empire which was already breaking up, and an impoverished, small Serbian state on the southern edge of Europe whose most substantial exports at that time were banditry and terrorism.

"The Great War" and "The war to end all war" proved to be neither. The conflict that would bleed to death some of Earth's proudest empires - while killing 16.5 million soldiers and civilians - later would be christened World War I to distinguish it from the next, even deadlier slaughter.

Clinton expressed regret to Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV about her now much-criticized comment that she and Bill Clinton were "dead broke" after he left the White House in 2001.