Jim Carrey is feuding with the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini on Twitter—is not a sentence I thought I’d ever write,…
I didn’t intend to start my day by crying at my desk (which is also my kitchen table—I’m working from home), but…
Naomi Parker Fraley—who as a young woman took up war work shortly after Pearl Harbor and boasted perhaps the single…
Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s brutal thriller about World War II’s Dunkirk evacuation, a bleak moment in which…
Today, singer Vera Lynn—who was incredibly popular in wartime Britain, with bittersweet hits like “We’ll Meet Again”…
If you haven’t watched Casablanca lately, you might have forgotten that this 1942 classic—routinely described as one of…
I remember the exact moment that I connected internment with my family. I was in elementary school, and we had learned…
On August 14, 1945, 21-year-old dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman joined a rejoicing crowd in New York City’s Time…
It took hard work by her family and a literal act of Congress, but Elaine D. Harmon, who served as a pilot in World War…
Two women who were forced to work as “comfort women” (read: sex slaves) for the Japanese army during World War II have p…
Norwood Thomas, a 93-year-old World War II army veteran, will finally reunite with his long-lost love, 88-year-old…
At the end of World War II, an estimated 200,000 South Korean women were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to work…
Hey, history-of-fashion nerds: Amazon UK has just booked an eight-part period drama about French haute couture in the…
Sleepy Republican Ben Carson keeps comparing modern struggles to World War II. Why does he keep doing this? Is that the…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation on Tuesday urging the city to build a memorial in remembrance…
Marie Jalowicz Simon spent the Holocaust hiding from the Nazis—living underground in Berlin, keeping to the fringes of…
Of all the things that could be used to replicate nylon stockings, gravy juice seems like a strange option.
On VE Day, not-yet Queen Elizabeth slipped out of Buckingham Palace and joined the festivities. Please enjoy this clip…
The model for Rockwell’s famous “Rosie the Riveter” painting (not to be confused with the beloved “We Can Do It”…
The United States government has produced plenty of wartime propaganda, but they’ve had help! The Academy of Motion…
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