If World War I is synonymous with one thing it is trenches. On the Western Front alone the trench line stretched nearly 500 miles from the shores of the North Sea in Belgium to neutral Switzerland to ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her grandfather, an engineer under General Pershing. The map is of St. Mihiel, a little-known but key battle in which U.S. forces ...

ISTANBUL – The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign, where throngs gather each April to remember the fallen, is a place of lore, an echo of ancient warfare that took place on the same ...

Excerpted from The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams. Out now from the University of Chicago Press. When the first world war started in 1914, most commentators thought that the war would be ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — An exhibit about World War I trench maps has opened at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. The State newspaper reported that 19 original maps from WWI are part of the ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the 1910s, promoters of the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1914, English cartographer John G. Bartholomew created an isochronic map, a map that shows all points that are accessible in the same amount of time. Ships and ...