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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, paying a visit to a hospital with wounded soldiers.

How Propaganda Became Entertaining

Ukraine’s wartime communications strategies have roots in World War II.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via The Atlantic on March 27, 2022
Artwork of Hannah Arendt looking through the outline of a map of Ukraine.

Why We Should Read Hannah Arendt Now

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.
by Anne Applebaum via The Atlantic on March 17, 2022
WWII Advertisement that highlights price controls.

Price Controls, Black Markets, And Skimpflation: The WWII Battle Against Inflation

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.
by Greg Rosalsky via NPR on February 8, 2022
Soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army march past the entrance of the Burgerbraukeller, site of Adolf Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich on May 3, 1945, five days before the formal end of the World War II in Europe.

‘Greatest Generation’ Survey on Race, Sex and Combat During World War II Runs Counter to Its Image

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.
by Michael E. Ruane via Retropolis on December 20, 2021
A view of “Battleship Row” during or immediately after the Japanese raid on Dec. 7, 1941. The capsized USS Oklahoma (BB 37) is in the center, alongside the USS Maryland (BB 46).
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What We Forget When We ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.
by Eri Kitada via Made By History on December 7, 2021
Title card for The Class Room, and drawing of a woman holding a child.

How America Got (And Lost) Universal Child Care

The U.S. managed to pay for a child care program during the most expensive war ever. What happened?
by More Perfect Union via YouTube on November 7, 2021
Book cover featuring Joseph Kennedy and his family.

Joseph Kennedy, American Fascist

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.
by Carl Rollyson via The Russell Kirk Center on November 7, 2021
In plane sight: Loadmasters look over Tumon Bay, Guam, during Exercise Cope North.

Guam: Resisting Empire at the “Tip of the Spear”

The Pentagon is increasing its forces on the US territory, but Indigenous residents are fighting back.
by Chris Gelardi via The Nation on November 2, 2021
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito, September, 1945
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The Japanese Surrender in 1945 is Still Poorly Understood

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?
by Jeremy Kuzmarov, Roger Peace via HNN on September 26, 2021
OPA rent control promotional poster

Wartime Wisdom to Combat Inflation

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.
by David Stein via Democracy Journal on August 31, 2021
A protest sign against involvement in WWII
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A Brief History of the "Isolationist" Strawman

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.
by Brandan P. Buck via HNN on August 29, 2021
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting on shipboard in 1941 with officers in the background.

Revisiting Roosevelt and Churchill's 'Atlantic Charter'

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?
by Paul Kennedy via The Wall Street Journal on August 27, 2021
Soldier walking through barracks

Army to Memorialize Black Soldier Lynched on Georgia Base 80 Years Ago

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.
by Alexa Mills via Washington Post on August 1, 2021
People standing in the National WWII Museum

What Should You Do With a Captured Nazi Flag?

During WWII, American soldiers brought the flags home as a remembrance. Now, family members and historians must decide what should become of them.
by Reina Gattuso via Atlas Obscura on July 19, 2021
German American Bund members
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The Long History of American Nazism — And Why We Can’t Forget it Today

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.
by Ronald J. Granieri, Susan Elia MacNeal via Made By History on July 13, 2021
A lightbulb with a virus inside

World War II’s Lesson for After the Pandemic

The U.S. needs another innovation dream team.
by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on June 28, 2021
Mounted police clashing with strikers, one carrying an American flag, outside an electrical plant in Philadelphia, 1946

Cops at War: How World War II Transformed U.S. Policing

As wartime labor shortages depleted police forces, and fear of crime grew, chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their officers.
by Stuart Schrader via Modern American History on June 28, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Joe Biden
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The Atlantic Charter Then and Now: Security and Stability Needs Justice

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Elizabeth Borgwardt via Made By History on June 22, 2021
Mochitsura Hashimoto, center, former Japanese sub commander, testifies at the Dec. 13, 1945, session of the Navy court-martial in Washington, trying Capt. Charles B. McVay III.

How a WWII Japanese Sub Commander Helped Exonerate a U.S. Navy Captain

After the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, a Japanese sub commander, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt. Charles McVay.
by Daryl Austin via Retropolis on June 6, 2021
Author Kim Clarke’s grandfather, Army Air Corps Corporal Delbert W. Trueman, grandmother Virginia, and mother Judy in 1944.

Gruesome but Honorable Work

Grieving family members were instrumental in the creation of a federal program to rebury and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers after World War II.
by Kim Clarke via Perspectives on History on May 24, 2021
An American propaganda leaflet dropped ahead of Curtis LeMay’s firebomb campaign over Japan.

Narrative Napalm

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.
by Noah Kulwin via The Baffler on May 17, 2021
John F. Kennedy at his graduation from Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940

Ending the Kennedy Romance

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.
by Michael Kazin via New York Review of Books on May 7, 2021
Jefferson Wiggins.

History Forgot About These Black Soldiers of WWII. Now, a Group Is Remembering Their Work.

Mieke Kierkels and Chris Dickon have been collaborating on several projects to remember the sacrifices of African American soldiers during World War II.
by Denise M. Watson via The Virginian Pilot on April 29, 2021
Richard Wright

When Richard Wright Broke With the Communists

His posthumously released novel, “The Man Who Lived Underground,” was written during a crisis of political faith.
by Colin Asher via The New Republic on April 19, 2021
Lee Miller

Photographer Lee Miller’s Subversive Career Took Her from Vogue to War-Torn Germany

She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.
by Angelica Villa via Art In America on March 19, 2021
The entrance at Camp Livingston.

Forgotten Camps, Living History

Reckoning with the legacy of Japanese internment in the South.
by Jason Christian via The Bitter Southerner on February 18, 2021
The ocean

Chemical Warfare’s Home Front

Since World War I we’ve been solving problems with dangerous chemicals that introduce new problems.
by Elizabeth Kolbert via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2021
Donald Trump speaking at an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit
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If Nations Compete For Doses of Coronavirus Vaccines, We’ll All Lose

Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration and cooperative diplomacy.
by Michael Falcone via Made By History on December 9, 2020
Boys holding a sign and working

What the Greatest Generation Had That the Covid Generation Lacks

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.
by Nicole Hemmer via CNN on November 18, 2020

A Military 1st: A Supercarrier is Named After an African-American Sailor

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.
by Jay Price via NPR on September 29, 2020
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