One of the most brutal of the war, the First Battle of the Somme was an attempt by British commanders to end a long stalemate of close combat and trench warfare against the Germans. The British and ...

A plant was rediscovered by accident in Vermont last month, the first time it was seen in more than a century. Botanists in Vermont have rediscovered a plant last seen there at the start of World War ...

NORWALK -- The photo is yellowed and faded at the edges, but the sense of patriotism in the image from July 28, 1917, is clear to see. The grainy photo depicts hundreds of Norwalk residents huddled ...

Typically, when people think of submarine warfare, they probably recall the deadly U-boats of World War II. While that conflict saw widespread use of submarines, it was hardly the first to utilize the ...

FROMELLES, France (Reuters) - The first of 250 unknown British and Australian soldiers whose bodies were dumped by the Germans in mass graves in northern France during World War I was reburied on ...

With Veterans Day this Friday, it’s a fitting time to remember the story of George Robert Simons, the first fallen soldier of World War I brought back from France to Bloomington for reburial. The fact ...

Ever since the inception of the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission in 2013, New York City sculptor Sabin Howard and architect Joe Weishaar have been hard at work creating Washington, D.C’s ...

Botanists in Vermont have rediscovered a plant last seen there at the start of World War I. It's called the false mermaid-weed. GRACE GLYNN: Kind of an enchanting name. FADEL: That's Grace Glynn.