Curator of Oral History Joey Balfour offers some suggestions for interviewing friends or loved ones at home.

Knitting allows Knit Your Bit donor to honor veterans in her family.

Although the precipitating events could not have been more different, both high school students in World War II and high school students today have seen their school lives disrupted and irrevocably changed seemingly overnight.

Historical fiction has a power all its own to communicate experiences of war and atrocity.

Allied troops race to Berchtesgaden for a chance to drink from the biggest liquor cabinet in Europe.

Entertainer Bob Hope performed his regular radio show in front of a military audience at the US Naval Training Facility in Oceanside, California on May 8, 1945. The next day he played a central role in the Victory broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Service. These performances both took a more somber tone than usual.

The experiences of Pilot Teresa James exemplify the dedicated service of WASP women in World War II. 

Charles Drew led the Blood for Britain program, and developed the National Blood Bank. 

The horrors of World War I led to research that resulted in two antibiotics that saved thousands of lives in World War II, and many millions since.

From the Collection: The EE-8 Field Telephone

The creation of a G.I. Army in 1941 required planning, hard work, and a little good luck. And it helped America win the war.

As Americans unite to defeat the Coronavirus, here are five great books that cover how Americans on the home front united to achieve victory in World War II.