This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War." In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary of the end of ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

One widely circulated image appears to capture this sacrifice—a photograph of 650 soldiers standing in the formation of a horse’s head, said to be a tribute to the horses killed in battle ...

German archaeologists discovered graves of soldiers from the Schmalkaldic War in Lauingen. The team from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) uncovered five burials ...