Protesters attend a huge anti-conscription rally at Yarra Bank in Melbourne, 1916. National Library of Australia, n6487142, CC BY-NC-ND A man stands on a beach in a distant land. Waves lap his ankles.

Memorial Day as we know it today began as Decoration Day in 1866, in upstate New York, after the cessation of the Civil War. First conceived as homage to those who had given their lives, it soon ...

Lest We Forget was Canada’s official Great War film. It sparked controversy when it was shown across the country in 1935, during the midst of the worst depression in Canadian history, and with a ...

ANZAC Day, we’re told, is Australia's "most important national occasion”. But beyond the glib cliches about how the ill-fated Anzac “campaign” at Gallipoli Cove in 1915 “shaped Australia's identity”, ...

Esperanza Spalding spins a dizzy red yarn in a forest in the video for the singer’s new song “Lest We Forget,” her tribute to the blood that courses through our veins. “Lest We Forget” is one of four ...