From the appointment of new deans to the endowment of Yale’s first professorship in poetry to the surprising results of an eye exam for an ancient sea scorpion, there was was certainly no shortage of news this summer. In fact, the following headlines...
On a warm August evening in the city of Liege in 1914, German forces opened fire on a Belgian fortification — the opening salvo of what is now known as the First World War.
The world had never seen death and destruction on such a scale. More than 16...