Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Austria responds to the US’s last diplomatic note about the sinking of the Ancona by an Austrian u-boat. It says it has punished the boat’...

The French socialist party congress votes to continue the war until victory, including getting Alsace & Lorraine back. Front Page He...

A federal grand jury issues indictments on charges of conspiracy to prevent the manufacture and shipment of arms to the Allies for official...

With the British cabinet reportedly screaming at each other over conscription, Ernest Bevin, organizer for the Dockers’ Union, who is on a ...

Oh, good, another day of the NYT Index being out of whack. The story “British Troops Feast While Shells Shriek,” for example, can helpfully...

The NYT Index for this date is totally fucked up. (Updated: and for the rest of the year. Grr.) British Minister of Munitions David Lloyd G...

I guess Henry Ford didn’t get the troops home by Christmas. But he is leaving Europe and going back home himself, “on the advice of a phys...

Headline of the Day -100:  Henry Ford is rumored to have already given up on his peace mission. Or he’s ill. Or both. Walter Runcima...

The British colonial government in Egypt bans women from entering the country, for no obvious reason. There were 8,000 murders in the US i...

Henry Ford’s Peace Ship campaign fails to interest Norwegian peace activists in working with him. They cite the presence of Rosika Schwimm...

The Carranza government of Mexico bans churches from taking up collections. It is also negotiating a peace with Pancho Villa’s followers t...

Henry Ford’s Peace Ship arrives at Christiana (Oslo), in some turmoil. The hastily assembled bunch have been squabbling for most of the vo...

Pres. Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt. “In the background stood Mrs. Galt’s two negro women servants, giving a picturesque Southern touc...

Pres. Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing will refuse Austria’s request that the US provide the information it used in deciding that the...

Austria responds to the US note on the sinking of the Ancona by its u-boat with a request for more information, and asks for the names of...

Gen. Sir Douglas Haig is made commander-in-chief of the British forces in France and Belgium, replacing Sir John French. This should go we...

Austria thinks the US note about the sinking of the Ancona is unfair because Austria wasn’t officially aware of the American position abou...

Headline of the Day -100:  The NYT says Pancho Villa has reverted to his bandit ways, extorting foreign-owned stores in Chihuahua. ...

The US sends a note to Austria about last month’s sinking of the Ancona, using much harsher language – “inhumane,” “barbarous,” “wanton s...

The Earl of Rosebery, a former Tory prime minister, calls Henry Ford’s Peace Ship “a vessel fraught with peace”. Pres. Yuan Shikai graciou...