When it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is safe to say that no one wins if the conflict helps spread the coronavirus. Before Russia’s forces began attacking its neighbor, both countries ...

In January of 1918, a deadly H1N1 strain of Influenza called the "Spanish Flu" began sweeping across the globe. This flu, also known as "Strain A" or "Avian Flu", took its toll worldwide, infecting ...

On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, was struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

The First World War began in the summer of 1914, shortly after the assassination of Austria’s Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and ...

Two decades after surviving an influenza pandemic that devastated the United States, Katherine Anne Porter recounted her experiences in one of the best-known accounts of the period—the 1939 novella ...

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Dispatch features a page from this week in history to celebrate the newspaper's 150 years of publication, with a little update on what's happened since. Folks in ...

600,000 square miles. Nowhere to hide.

IN a dozen years we have seen a marked change in our understanding of the war, only the least of which is attributable to fiction. With the publication of our archive material, with the summing up of ...