The attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, but still came as a shock.

Japanese Americans faced different circumstances in Hawaii following the Pearl Harbor attack than those of their counterparts on the mainland, but still experienced discrimination.

As an adult, Janine Simone Hopkins was encouraged by her family to record her experiences and reflections of her life in Paris during the German occupation. 

Historian Richard B. Frank discusses three major mistakes which denied the fleet at Pearl Harbor time to prepare for the incoming Japanese attack.

Though a fictional character, American Girl Nanea Mitchell’s Story of Hawaii after Pearl Harbor resonates with children today.

Known as a tropical paradise today, for many sailors before December 7, 1941, it was just another port of call during their naval service.

Attached to Canadian and British forces, the first Americans to see ground combat in Europe witnessed disaster at Dieppe.

From coaling station to naval base, Pearl Harbor’s strategic importance in the Pacific was widely recognized.

The Hawaiian Islands are the result of millions of years of volcanic activity. So were most of the islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean. The entire Pacific Campaign was shaped by geological forces not understood until decades after the war.

A single squadron of Mexican flyers completed nearly 800 sorties—individual aircraft combat missions—in the waning days of World War II.