During the war, Mexican Americans served in the military and worked on the Home Front to support their country, and when it ended, were no longer willing to accept second-class citizenship.
This essay offers some ways of thinking about how to make sense of the complicated post-war moment through the case of Yugoslavia.
How Soviet occupation policy in Austria took shape warrants more attention.
This article examines how World War II marked an important moment in the political history of modern zoos.
To ensure that “justice” was done at Nuremberg, American occupation officials set German war criminals free decades ahead of schedule.
When the war in Europe ended in the spring of 1945, Romani survivors were scattered, exhausted, and traumatized.
World War II shaped conversations on the future of service including universal military training and conscription.
Arthur and Estelle Ishigo navigated post-WWII life in California as an interracial couple after leaving the Heart Mountain “Relocation Center.”
Jazz in the late 1940s moved away from big band jazz and morphed into a new expressive form that reflected social developments and postwar realities.
Just when you thought that most of the stories of the legendary all-black female military unit from World War II had been told, along comes the recent discovery that 14 of the 855 women from the “Six Triple Eight” have a final resting place at America’s most hallowed grounds, Arlington National Cemetery.