The war that remade the world order … isn’t the one you think. World War I established our notion of global governance, passports, altered the money we use (and even gave us facism). And yet, before researching this video, this student of American public schooling could remember just two things about The Great War: […]
The American entry into the war was the apotheosis of progressivism — the high-water mark of its crusading zeal.