From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s perspective in the White House, democracy was under attack overseas and at home in mid-1941.

The Operation 85 project aims to identify unknown servicemen who perished aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Before her historic protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks was a Home Front worker at Maxwell Airfield.

Roughly 100 companies, coast to coast, helped Republic Aviation Corporation manufacture each P-47 Thunderbolt.

After the war, hundreds of thousands of US warplanes remained—but the military needed only a fraction of them.

Prior to World War II, there was a thriving American wristwatch industry, but it became a casualty of the war. 

Penned by philosopher Bertrand Russell and endorsed by Albert Einstein, the document warned human beings about the existential threat posed by the new hydrogen bomb.

The election of the Popular Front government in France and a wave of factory occupations secured huge gains for French workers.

In 1936, strikes and protests achieved major gains for American workers and set the stage for organized labor’s contribution to the struggle against fascism in World War II.

As World War II approached, schizophrenics became victims of an even greater human rights violation at the hands of the Third Reich.

Wartime film star Patsy Kelly's most defiant act was being an openly gay woman in an inhospitable climate for the LGBTQIA+ community. 

War production was crucial for an Allied victory, but what happened when labor strikes challenged the “arsenal of democracy”?