Many American servicemen and women expressed hopes for the next year in wartime New Year’s mail.

The vestige of a peculiar tradition, short snorters served as both wartime souvenir and membership certificate to a special club.

Must-reads of 2021 picked by historians and scholars in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

An interview with Anthony Tucker-Jones, author of the newly released Churchill: Master and Commander.

The German response to the Warsaw Uprising was characterized by ruthless terror and unrelenting bloodshed, which caused civilian support to drastically diminish.

Robert O. Paxton’s work continues to educate the world about the history of Vichy France, the emergence of fascism, and the Holocaust in France.

Lt. Aubrey Rion was one of 19,000 Americans killed during the Battle of the Bulge.

Polish civilians played a critical role in the two-month long conflict in Warsaw.

The surveillance and detention of Italian Americans after Pearl Harbor is a little-known piece of WWII history.

Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

AMM2c Durell Wade made the ultimate sacrifice manning his battlestation on USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.