Institute for the Study of War and Democracy Roundtable featuring Conrad C. Crane, PhD.

Thousands of students ask—we answer! Let's dig into the top five questions about the Manhattan Project.

Many entertainers and future celebrities answered their country's call and donned US Navy and Coast Guard blues, serving at sea during the war.

Mascot became a popular position for many rescued puppies along the way.

Faced with his regime’s collapse, Adolf Hitler chose to destroy Germany’s infrastructure.

Any doubt to her identity was washed away when her name appeared emblazoned across her stern in raised letters: JUNEAU.

On March 18, 1945, the biggest wartime bombing raid on Berlin showed that the German air force was still a dangerous and defiant foe.

World War II wasn't just a man's war—350,000 American women answered the call and served their country.

Jeanette "Nettie" Parker worked as a riveter for Fisher Body Plant Aircraft Division in Memphis, Tennessee from February 1943-July 1945.

The first B-29s over Tokyo were pathfinders. Coming in over the target from opposite directions, the pathfinders dropped their payload, which immediately burst into flames. The pathfinder's job now done, they retreated from the area, the target now brightly illuminated in the shape of an enormous fiery “X”.