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Women in uniform hold stretchers in front of ambulances in this historic photo.

How the Spanish flu could have changed 1919’s Paris peace talks

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 infected more than one-third of the world. It may have also affected the outcome of the 1919 peace talks in Parias after WWI.

Members of the US Army Company "I", 102nd Infantry Regiment circa 1919.

It’s the 100th anniversary of the declaration that made America a major world power

Conflict

Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began

On a Razor’s Edge: Beards and Reforms in Iran

Arts, Culture & Media

Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach’s “One Nation Under Sex”

Arts, Culture & Media

How the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Many of us trace the Civil Rights movement back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks’ arrest in 1955. But the true beginning may have been during the summer of 1919, remembered as “Red Summer,” when race riots erupted across the country. At that time, NAACP membership grew exponentially, as black World War I […]

Gun smuggling case in New Mexico

Global Politics

Monica Ortiz Uribe reports on a New Mexico border town that was once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. It’s in the news now because some local officials were arrested on charges of smuggling guns into Mexico. Which town?