From Kadesh to Troy: The Oldest War Stories
Long before anyone wrote a history of a war, people carved it in stone for a king, pressed it into clay for scribes, or sang it aloud for anyone who would listen.
8 min read →Section I
Storytelling Through the Ages
From carved temple walls to soldiers' letters and the poets of the trenches: how people have told the story of war, and why each telling matters.
Thucydides and the Birth of War History
An Athenian commander who failed in the field spent his exile doing something new: writing down a war as carefully and truthfully as he could, and telling readers how he did it.
8 min read →Letters Home: The American Civil War in Soldiers' Own Words
Union and Confederate soldiers wrote home by the thousands, often frankly and without an officer reading over their shoulder, and their letters remain one of the best windows into how the war felt.
8 min read →The Soldier-Poets of the First World War
A handful of men who served on the Western Front wrote poems that still shape how much of the world remembers the First World War, though their view was never the only one.
8 min read →Other sections