Behind Their Lines

Attack Developing in the Champagne, Blanc Mont Sector   Claggett Wilson, ca. 1919 Smithsonian American Art Museum Soldiers’ accounts of the ...

The Harvest Moon, Harvey Dunn (Smithsonian AF.25720 )   Words are soldiers of fortune Hired by different ideas To provide an importance for ...

Vestal Virgin, by Antonio Canova (Getty Museum) In the podcast episode “Surplus Women,” Caroline Campton says,  In 1921, the British governm...

Aline Kilmer with Kenton, c. 1909 (Joyce Kilmer House & New Brunswick Historical Society) Joyce Kilmer was a rising American poet, famou...

There’s something extraordinary about holding an old book in your hands, wondering about its history and journey. This summer in an Oxford b...

One of the missing of the Somme, Lieutenant Cyril Winterbotham was killed on 27 August 1916 near Ovillers, France when his battalion was ord...

Dearmer from article in Dutch Daily NRC (24 Mar. 1993), Michiel Hegener Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two of the best-known poets o...