Greatest Generation

Virginia Tech project finds forgotten Army surveys that reveal World War II lingo and “the good, the bad, the ugly, heroic, not heroic” attitudes of soldiers.

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.

Americans are no more selfish in 2020 than they were in the 1940s, the difference between the two moments is about national leadership, not national character.

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

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

Today, the military is perhaps the largest integrated institution in the US. But how it came to be this way reveals a history of racism and resistance.

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

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.

A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.