As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled...
World War II
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...
Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
Examining Europe’s rise out of the ashes of the ruined continent to lasting stability, peace, and prosperity....
The Second World War was one of the most cataclysmic events humanity has ever experienced, wreaking havoc...
Prohibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
More than seven decades later, millions of books, documentaries, and films about the 2nd World War and...
Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
Rationed foods were categorized as either needing red or blue points. Introduction The events on December 7,...
Born in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara was fully bicultural, bilingual, and binational. When I first met...
The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal...
While D-Day was extraordinarily significant, it was neither the decisive battle of the Second World War nor...
Amid the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to note, too, the anniversary of an...
How engineers helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and win World War II. Introduction When Allied troops...
Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Launched on June 6,...
It was the first stage in the liberation of western Europe and a major step towards the...
Their experiences and memories—in oral histories, interviews, as well as in fiction and film—challenge the narrative of...
Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
Bombing bridges and railway lines over which both deported Jews and German troops were transported could have...
The appeasement policy pursued by Britain and France was founded on the premise that Germany was maltreated...
From the summer of 1944 till the end of the war in Europe, the US fielded a...
After the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...