Christmas 1914 fell on a Friday. At the White House, President Woodrow Wilson had Christmas dinner at 7. Children went sledding on snow-packed streets in Georgetown. And umbrellas at Lansburgh's were ...

It is common to regard Christmas as a time of family gatherings, gift giving, and traditions. Today, we often regard Christmas as a moment of fellowship and harmony. But for the people of 1914, ...

The Christmas Truce has become the stuff of legend. On a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914 during World War I, the guns briefly fell silent. In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe ...

One of the greatest war movies ever made is Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir's 1937 film about a group of French prisoners of war held in a German aristocrat's castle during World War I. In the climactic ...

What comes to mind when you think of Christmas Eve? Jesus’ birth, Christmas carols, families together, gifts exchanged, are a few thoughts that might come to mind. However, for some soldiers, 108 ...

PLOEGSTEERT, Belgium (AP) — With British and German forces separated only by a no-man’s land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air: ...

It was once called the War to End All Wars, but World War I dragged on year after year. Governments were shattered, lives were destroyed, and many more wars came in its wake. But for one moment in ...

British and German soldiers in World War I during the Christmas Truce of 1914. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. It’s late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World ...

The last surviving soldier who witnessed the "Christmas Truce" in 1914 on the Western Front of World War I has died. Alfred Anderson was 109 years old. During Christmas 1914, there was an early, ...