This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
War's End Redraws Europe and Signals Versailles Strife
The Islander reports on postwar upheaval as peace reshapes Europe. It notes armistice terms, German collapse, abdications, and dynastic end, with the Versailles Conference shaping new borders and nations including Poland. President Wilson leads U.S. participation amid era of Bolshevik threat and European realignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grant Dater
Harper's
America
League of Nations
Gibbon
Macaulay
Lecky
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
Luxemburg
Rhine
Mainz
Coblenz
Cologne
Austria
Romania
Turkey
Germany
Brest- Litovsk
Bucharest
German Empire
Kiel
Hamburg
Socialist Party
Holland
James II
England
Charles of Austria
Bolsheviks
The
Reds
Russia
Central
Europe
Bavaria
Berlin
Rhineland
Versailles
United States
Wilson
Alsace- Lorraine
Italy
Balkan States
Poland
Prussia
Baltic
Minland
Ukraine