Social History
Gordon Berg |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 5:46 pm
'John Brown's Body' by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928, remains a vibrant tapestry of America's diversity and its unity, its 15,000 lines re-imagining the Civil War as Lincoln understood it.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: February 09, 2012 at 11:59 am
The Second Sino-Japanese War takes off, solidifying Emperor Hirohito's power and perhaps dooming Japan in World War II.
Richard Ernsberger Jr. |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Sixty-seven years after her death, Eva Braun, the long-time mistress of Adolf Hitler, remains a mysterious figure. Heike G. Görtemaker, a German historian and author, attempts to add clarity to the life of a woman who met Hitler as …
Laurence Rees |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:27 pm
How Stalin's policies meant the difference between life and death, and not in the way one might think
Saba Igbe |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Jamaica is best known for rum, reggae music, and its beach scene, but the easygoing Caribbean island had its share of wartime activity and intrigue. During the war there were at least a dozen major American military bases in …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
The top book titles from World War II magazine's resident blogger
Alex Kershaw |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Why Germany kept up the fight
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Tracing the roots of the kamikaze to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 17, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Last week we asked the Japanese army a somewhat sarcastic question: What were you guys thinking?
I'd argue that the Japanese decisions of 1931, 1937, and 1941 make almost no sense unless we delve back a bit into Japanese history. …
Chris Noel |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm
How a million GIs in Vietnam seduced one Hollywood starlet who was talking to them over the airwaves
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 22, 2011 at 6:11 pm
As readers of this column know by now, war movies don't do much for me. It's a case of too much movie and not enough war. Too much Hollywood, not enough Hürtgen. Everything in real war is confused, bewildering, and …
Gene Santoro |
Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
Author Frederic C. Tubach shares a glimpse of his childhood in the Third Reich
Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
By Eddie Slovik, the first and only American soldier to be officially executed for desertion since the Civil War
Gene Santoro |
Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
How economists led the U.S. to victory
Debra Newbold |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie's 242 portraits of U.S. soldiers who died in one week in Vietnam, an artistic undertaking inspired by the June 27, 1969, Life magazine cover and article, "Faces of …
Debra Newbold |
Published: October 21, 2011 at 1:40 pm
A new traveling exhibit that looks back at the tumultuous year of 1968 debuts Oct. 14, 2011 at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minn.
"The 1968 Exhibit" traces the escalating war in Vietnam and its growing opposition, the …
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