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.

Star Shirley Temple had a special relationship with the Hawaiian Islands. In the prewar years, she made several tours of Hawaii, delighting local and military audiences.

The modern usage of the word “cool” surfaced during World War II. Cool was a new concept, a new set of encoded ideas, and a new musical aesthetic. This article explores the idea in a post-WWII context.

Major events are often rooted deeply in the past—the “long fuse” that leads to explosions.

Three groups were at the heart of post-war German fears of revenge: Jewish Holocaust survivors, Eastern European Displaced Persons, and American occupation officials.

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.