Ethics Story Briefs

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, has a very moving memorial to children lost in the war.

During war, people create art or compose songs to bolster public support for the fighting. This is an example from the Union's point of view.

According to the U.S. Army Center for Military History: "On 28 September these armies [the combined Franco-American forces] began siege operations, us...

This WWI-era sign, along a road in the Belgian town of Ypres, signifies the profound losses sustained by residents of the town and the men who died fi...

During World War I, Germany began to use chemical weapons against the Allies. One of those weapons was mustard gas.

A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...