The 13th Engineers didn’t stay in England long, but their visit marked the first time US troops had landed there since the Revolution. Their parade passed before the King and...

On April 24, 1917, shortly after the US declared war on Germany, former French Prime Minister René Viviani arrived in the US as head of a commission to solicit US...

During the first two years of the war in Europe, President Wilson had carefully avoided making any commitments on behalf of the United States. He was careful, even, to avoid...

At the beginning of August 1914 the world was suddenly and unexpectedly at war. The establishment of alliances and mutual protection agreements in Europe in the preceding decades had been...