World War II

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.

Prisoners not only supported the war effort in surprising ways during World War II, they fought and died in it.

Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.

The correspondence of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall leading up to D-Day.

The fundamentalist movement took the war as an opportunity to rebrand.

The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

When it came to gathering refugees, the waiting room of the US consulate was probably the closest thing to Rick’s Café Américain.

The stories of two American soldiers – one part German, the other born in Japan – challenge our romantic view of the "Greatest Generation."

"I was always working on a theory of America."

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

In this new hobby, I found so many stories.

A civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double V campaign advocated for dual victories: over fascism abroad, and racial injustice in the U.S.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.

What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?

The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.

For a full understanding of any historical period, we must read the literature written while its events were still unfolding.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.