On January 1, 1942, 26 countries signed the Declaration of the United Nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of World War II.

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.

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

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

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

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.

World War II shaped conversations on the future of service including universal military training and conscription.

Jazz in the late 1940s moved away from big band jazz and morphed into a new expressive form that reflected social developments and postwar realities.

During World War II, 4-H members contributed to the war effort in many ways—through military service, as well as efforts on the home front.

Robert Riskin, head of the Bureau of Motion Pictures, was responsible for creating Projections of America, a documentary film series that became one of the most important propaganda initiatives of World War II.

Scientists became political activists in the debate over control of atomic energy.