Pearl Harbor Attack

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

What the immediate aftermath of the bombing looked like from the cockpit of a Japanese plane.

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.

Reckoning with the legacy of Japanese internment in the South.

A history of Japanese Internment in America through the art produced from it.

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.

The events of Sept. 11 are etched into the memories of those who were alive that day. As history shows, future generations will feel differently.

FDR cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.

At the frontier of American empire.

Who is counted by the census, how, and for what purpose, has changed a lot since 1790.

The 1941 strike, following the spectacular success of “Snow White,” stunned Walt Disney and rattled his now-storied company.

A location-based timeline and interactive map of the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots.

To what extent did newspapers influence public opinion in the US and Britain before and during World War II?

The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.

The danger of making wars into moral crusades.

A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.