Robert Aitken was 35 when he enlisted at Trenton, New Jersey, on August 9, […]
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Rewriting History With the 54th: The First Northern All-Black Volunteer Regiment
A crowd of several thousand men, women, and children lined the street before the […]
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WWII Review: Americans and the Holocaust Museum Exhibit
The U.S. Holocaust Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” uncovers the unpleasant truth of America’s early knowledge of the Nazis’ execution of the Jews.
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Book Review: Rescue Board / The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebecca Erbelding has mined storehouses of records, and tells the stories of the War Refugee Board’s exploits in a clear and compelling way.
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World War II Travel: Louisiana Maneuvers
Travel writer Mark D. Van Ells explores Louisiana’s World War II training grounds
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Footlocker: Reich Labor Service’s Klopfsteg
Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries
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Daily Quiz for September 5, 2018
The Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 regarding redistribution of Native American reservation land to individual Native Americans was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland and discontinued by this president.
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INTERVIEW: Brigitte Schreiber Hayward / Growing up in Nazi Germany
Brigitte Schreiber spent her childhood growing up in Nazi Germany along with her siblings and parents, and recalls her harrowing experiences.
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Fire for Effect: Toughing It Out in the Japanese Army
The reason to train an army is to beat an enemy in battle—but if you’re a Japanese soldier, it might have seemed your army’s real purpose was to beat you
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Battle Films: The Caine Mutiny
1954’s The Caine Mutiny, one of the classic films in American cinematic history, almost never have made it to the silver screen.