World War I

Angela Merkel

Germany Got a Way Bigger Bailout Than It’ll Give Greece—and It Led to a More Peaceful Europe Germany Got a Way Bigger Bailout Than It’ll Give Greece—and It Led to a More Peaceful Europe

In 1953, the London Debt Agreement canceled half of Germany’s debt. Greece will not get quite so generous a deal.

Jul 14, 2015 / Miranda Katz

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June 28, 1914: Gavrilo Princip Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Sparking World War I June 28, 1914: Gavrilo Princip Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Sparking World War I

"Governments cannot yield to terrorism."

Jun 28, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

May 7, 1915: The Lusitania Sinks, Killing Over 1,000 Civilians

May 7, 1915: The Lusitania Sinks, Killing Over 1,000 Civilians May 7, 1915: The Lusitania Sinks, Killing Over 1,000 Civilians

"The torpedo that sank the Lusitania also sank Germany in the opinion of mankind."

May 7, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary

When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary

An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.

Mar 23, 2015 / Encounter / Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick

1915–1965 1915–1965

From World War I to Vietnam, from the red scare to McCarthyism, The Nation stood firm for civil liberties and civil rights, even when that meant being banned—or standing alone.

Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Uncommon Catastrophes

Uncommon Catastrophes Uncommon Catastrophes

Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.

Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Tom Finn

January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris

January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris

The Nation’s editor reports from the conference, where he laments the absence of women, workers and communists.

Jan 18, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I

The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.

Aug 5, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

A man walks past a giant plaster cast on display with other artifacts at the Peabody Museum.

Anthropologists as Spies Anthropologists as Spies

Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.

Nov 2, 2000 / Feature / David Price

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

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