Social History
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:59 am
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter)
Directed by Martin Koolhoven.
2008; opens in the U.S. March 18, 2011.
103 minutes. Black and white, with subtitles.
January 1945: the heart of what the Dutch call Hongerwinter, when nearly 20,000 starved to death after …
Peter Bennett |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:53 am
The former führer dreamed of contributing to the arts of Vienna. Instead, reminders of suffering remain for tourists today.
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:52 am
"I've been thinking about this for 20 years," says Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of Eastern Europe. "This" is the unspeakable carnage he chronicles in Bloodlands, the first comprehensive overview of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and …
Andrew Carroll |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:52 am
By September 1944, 23-year-old lieutenant Erwin Blonder had seen enough of war to want to chronicle what he had witnessed—while keeping the news from his wife, Shirlee, and his mother and mother-in-law. In the letter that follows, he describes his …
Vietnam magazine |
Published: March 29, 2011 at 5:57 pm
While the austere Zippo lighter was ubiquitous among GIs during WWII, it became a cultural icon in Vietnam
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: March 21, 2011 at 10:44 am
On March 22, 1811, a man, a map, and a far-reaching vision created the plan that would allow New York City to become one of the world's greatest metropolises.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: February 09, 2011 at 1:06 pm
More than 600 Red Cross Donut Dollies brought smiles to thousands of GIs in Vietnam
Irving A. Bunkin |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:24 pm
In a hauntingly observant diary, an army surgeon chronicles the bloody toll of battle—including its toll on him.
Andrew Carroll |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Fritz Schnaittacher came face to face with the horror he escaped from.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Hotzumi Ozaki, the only Japanese to be formally tried and hanged for treason during the war, became a role model for his countrymen.
Gene Santoro |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Relive the longest-running World War II television series.
Gene Seymour |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:03 pm
A page-turning account of survival in the Pacific, but one that's been told before.
Gene Santoro |
Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:03 pm
The author of Churchill's Secret War discusses the wartime leader's fatal grip on India
Jay Wertz |
Published: January 28, 2011 at 2:08 pm
This review of American Experience: The Greely Expedition praises the way filmmaker Rob Rapley subtly utilizes visuals and simple music to tell this story of a promising 19th-century scientific adventure that devolved into loss and despair
Sarah Barringer Gordon |
Published: January 27, 2011 at 5:29 pm
In 1943, Jehovah’s Witnesses went to court over their constitutional right not to pledge allegiance to the United States.
Media Release |
Published: January 18, 2011 at 2:04 pm
A call for writers to contribute to Germany at War, an encyclopedia project by ABC-Clio that covers German military history from the Thirty Years War to today's Bundeswehr.
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