Sometimes art can change how people see the world. But Anna Coleman Ladd made art that changed how the world saw people. It was World War I, and soldiers were coming home from the battlefield with ...

As the world and its soldiers went over the top and straight into mechanized warfare, the horrors of large-caliber machine guns and artillery warfare ushered in a new age of gruesome deaths and ...

During World War I, Fred Coleman was preparing to go overseas. In February 1918, he wrote home: “I like the life of a soldier and am getting along fine. It was rumored that we were to be transferred ...