Denise Kiernan's The Girls of Atomic City captures a wonderful social history of how women made the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee successful.
Knitting allows Knit Your Bit donor to honor veterans in her family.
The National WWII Museum hosts a number of ongoing and special events open to the public throughout the year. From learning workshops for the whole family to lectures (both scholarly and more general) to film screenings, the Museum offers a variety of programming that helps to deepen the understanding of the American experience in World War II.
The Soviets inflicted terrible brutality on their Japanese captives.
On April 21, 1946, two political parties united, creating a single, dominant party in what became East Germany.
Fly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
Fly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
America's WWII military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.
Divisions offers a decidedly different view.