How World War II Spawned America’s Shark ObsessionAs part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled...
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The Enduring Fascination – and Challenge – of World War IIWhy World War II, the “good war”, still fascinates us and undoubtedly will continue to do so....
Ambitious for War: How German-Soviet Collaboration Set the Course for World War IINever before in history had two adversaries spent so much time arming each other for war. In...
A Military History of the United States during World War IIDuring the war some 16,112,566 Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed and...
The Primary and Proximate Causes of World War IIDuring the interwar period, deep German anger arose in the Weimar Republic on the conditions of the...
“To the Rescue of the Crops”: The Women’s Land Army during World War IIThroughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
Out of the Ashes: Europe’s Rebirth after the Second World War, 1945-1949Examining Europe’s rise out of the ashes of the ruined continent to lasting stability, peace, and prosperity....
History of Education in Society during the Second World WarThe Second World War was one of the most cataclysmic events humanity has ever experienced, wreaking havoc...
The Black Nurses Who Were Forced to Care for German Prisoners of WarProhibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
5 World War II Facts They Don’t Teach You At SchoolMore than seven decades later, millions of books, documentaries, and films about the 2nd World War and...
World War II and American Visual CultureExamining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
Food Rationing and Canning during World War IIRationed foods were categorized as either needing red or blue points. Introduction The events on December 7,...
The Japanese-American Officer Who Helped Take Down and Then Rebuild JapanBorn in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara was fully bicultural, bilingual, and binational. When I first met...
D-Day 75 Years Later and the Quest for PeaceThe best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal...
Beware a Popular D-Day MythWhile D-Day was extraordinarily significant, it was neither the decisive battle of the Second World War nor...
Remembering the Allied Liberation of Rome in 1944Amid the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to note, too, the anniversary of an...
D-Day Succeeded Thanks to an Ingenious Design Called the Mulberry HarboursHow engineers helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and win World War II. Introduction When Allied troops...
Operation Overlord: Remembering D-Day in Photographs, 75 Years LaterOperation Overlord, better known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Launched on June 6,...
D-Day, 1944It was the first stage in the liberation of western Europe and a major step towards the...
Transnational Debts: The Cultural Memory of Navajo Code Talkers in World War IITheir experiences and memories—in oral histories, interviews, as well as in fiction and film—challenge the narrative of...
The Propaganda Posters that Won the U.S. Home Front in World War IIArtists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz but Didn’t Save the JewsBombing bridges and railway lines over which both deported Jews and German troops were transported could have...
The Death of Appeasement: The 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of PragueThe appeasement policy pursued by Britain and France was founded on the premise that Germany was maltreated...
The Remarkable Story of the World War II ‘Ghost Army’ That Duped HitlerFrom the summer of 1944 till the end of the war in Europe, the US fielded a...
Propaganda for Japanese-American Internment during World War IIAfter the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...