When World War I broke out in 1914, it unleashed unimaginable carnage and upheaval. By the time the war ended four years later, nearly 40 million lives had been lost, dynasties had collapsed and the ...

Throughout the year 1913, Mussolini's favourite poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio, wrote the date "1912+1": he feared the unlucky number 13. In reality 1913 was an ambivalent year that looked forward to the ...

The 1913 Liberty Head Nickel is one of the most legendary and valuable coins in American history. Officially, the U.S. Mint ceased production of Liberty Head nickels in 1912, making the existence of ...

Why does it say "1913" at the top of all the columns around the Scioto Penninsula? Submissions for What's Up With That? — our weekly series answering reader questions about developments, trends and ...

Can you write a history of the year 1913 and ignore the disaster waiting around the corner? With the centenary of the first world war approaching that may sound perverse, yet it is precisely what Die ...

Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people’s identities overlap and Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities intermingle freely, yet few can contemplate the conflict that would ...

To this point, just one New York State governor has ever been impeached from office. On Oct. 17, 1913, William Sulzer, known as “Plain Bill,” was removed from office, just a tad over 10 months after ...