From the Angel of Mons and the Anzac legend to Nazi racial mythology and the SS, ancient...
World War II
Explore the history of World War II, including its origins, global theaters, the Holocaust, occupation and resistance, military campaigns, civilian experiences, and postwar consequences.
During World War II, Japan’s government tightly controlled news, radio, and propaganda to shape public perception, sustain...
The relationship between the uses of history and memory in commemorative practices. Arbitrary Anniversaries Anniversaries present some...
Richard Strauss did not specify what precisely his music was attempting to remember. By Jeremy EichlerClassical Music...
Approximately 72,000, or two-thirds, of those incarcerated were American-born citizens. By Dr. Susan H. KameiAdjunct Professor (Teaching)...
The establishment had been sufficiently frightened to back a right-wing backlash. Introduction The co-existence of imperialist war...
Field works have existed for as long as there have been armies. Introduction Trench warfare is a type...
They feared that the highly mechanized, technocratic warfare that was developing in the mid-20th century. Nuclear war...
In Axis countries the people’s war was fought in darkness behind the doors of the torture chamber....
Having a key to unlock encoded messages is the vital component of any secure communication. The Navajo...
He came home from the war to find that discrimination against Latinos had not abated during his...
Roosevelt caved to war hysteria and paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Introduction When...
The term “quisling” has become a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages. Introduction Vidkun Abraham...
From Russia to Germany and back to Russia again – and finally to the gallows. Introduction Andrey...
Tregaskis observed a few changes in the naval air war since the last time he had been...
Here we are going to learn more about the George B Hightower diary and the description of...
The Immigration and Naturalization Service investigated him. It recommended against granting him citizenship. Three days after World War II...
As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled...
Why World War II, the “good war”, still fascinates us and undoubtedly will continue to do so....
Never before in history had two adversaries spent so much time arming each other for war. In...
During the war some 16,112,566 Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed and...
During the interwar period, deep German anger arose in the Weimar Republic on the conditions of the...
They experienced on a small scale in 1918 what they would be doing a quarter-century later on...
Examining Europe’s rise out of the ashes of the ruined continent to lasting stability, peace, and prosperity....
World War Two saw a massive increase in weapon types and technology. Some didn’t work out quite...
Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
Exploring current struggles of memory and history within and beyond the Japanese American community. For many Americans,...
It was the first stage in the liberation of western Europe and a major step towards the...
Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine / Wikimedia Commons The Holocaust...