Julia Child is known more for her recipe for bœuf bourguignon than her time in the Office of Strategic Services. 

Girl Scouts’ history of volunteering during times of crisis has been prevalent since the very beginning. 

When the Allies desperately needed cargo ships, women bravely stepped up to supply them by working at shipyards across the country, including in Brunswick, Georgia. 

Felice and Lilly’s story is one of contradictions. One a bohemian writer in the Jewish underground; the other wife to an ardent Nazi, a “good German” Hausfrau, and mother of four. The two women fell in love in wartime Berlin.

Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.