Behind Their Lines

Parade to War, Allegory by John Steuart Curry (1938)  In 1916, British author Margaret Sackville published a collection of poems titled The ...

Unidentified African American soldier Library of Congress, 2021653121 When American entered the Great War, many African Americans supported ...

Mary HJ Henderson, 1917 In spring of 1918, Mary H.J.  Henderson published a small collection of poetry, In War and Peace, Songs of a Scotswo...

Harvard's First World War memorial  In May of 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany, French general Joseph Joffr...

The Deluge (1920) by Winifred Knights The Tate Museum, T05532 Over a century after the end of the First World War, “Lest We Forget” is an of...

Rupert Brooke, 1913, by Sherril Schell National Portrait Gallery NPG P101 In August of 1915, just months after Rupert Brooke’s death, his fr...

Richard Aldington, image mypoeticside.com    In 1923, the American editor of Poetry magazine wrote of a trip to London and her encounter wi...