The tin helmet, the machine gun and the R80 airship are just three examples of how the homefront had a major impact on the way World War One was waged.

After the start of World War One the “Commission for Relief of Belgium” (CRB) was established with Herbert Hoover, a wealthy industrialist living in London at the time, as Chairman. Herbert Hoover, ...

While doing road repairs in Wrocław, Poland, workers recently came across more than 50 military helmets from World War I and World War II. Found mere steps away from the University of Wrocław ...

For an estimated $200,000-300,000, this screen-worn Stormtrooper helmet—recently exhibited at the Reagan Presidential Library—could be yours. And so could questions about representation of Empire!

Helmet pulled from mud of Rhine River reunited with World War II soldier's family 80 years later 03:06. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It is a reunion 80 years in the making.

One American protest against the war turned to tragedy when, in 1917, Oklahoma police arrested nearly 500 draft resisters—white, black and Native American—taking part in what they called the ...

The Lafayette Escadrille: The American Volunteers Who Flew For France in World War One is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android ...

World War II was a time of unimaginable hardship, courage, and transformation. Seemingly overnight, ordinary folks were ...

The woobie might be a candidate. (U.S. Army/Spc. Kristina Truluck) American troops finally got a break from the longtime heavyweight standard-bearer of helmets in the late 1980s, when they were ...

One of the three unexploded bombs from the Second World War is fenced off with screens as specialists prepare to defuse them in Cologne, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Thomas Banneyer / AP ...