WWII

A family’s 76-year quest for truth — and justice ( La version française suit)

Biram Senghor visits the land in Diakhao, Senegal, where his father lived before going to Europe to fight in World War II. (John Wessels for The Washington Post) By THE Read More

A family’s 76-year quest for truth — and justice ( La version française suit)

Biram Senghor visits the land in Diakhao, Senegal, where his father lived before going to Europe to fight in World War II. (John Wessels for The Washington Post) By THE Read More

Wikipedia’s Article of the Day June 21, 2020: High Explosive Research

High Explosive Research was the independent British project to develop atomic bombs after the Second World War. The decision to undertake it was made in 1947 and publicly announced in Read More

Wikipedia’s Article of the Day June 21, 2020: High Explosive Research

High Explosive Research was the independent British project to develop atomic bombs after the Second World War. The decision to undertake it was made in 1947 and publicly announced in Read More

‘We’ll shut your filthy mouth’: Putin says Russia will combat the rewriting of WWII history with new free-to-all archive center

© Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev / Kremlin By RT Moscow is to create the most extensive collection of WWII documents, open to all persons anywhere, to once and for all Read More

Wallgren and Baldridge: Illustrating World War I in The Stars and Stripes Newspaper

By Arlene Balkansky, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS December 11, 2019 Wally Wallgren and C. LeRoy Baldridge, the two-person art department of the World War I era military newspaper, The Stars and Read More

Wallgren and Baldridge: Illustrating World War I in The Stars and Stripes Newspaper

By Arlene Balkansky, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS December 11, 2019 Wally Wallgren and C. LeRoy Baldridge, the two-person art department of the World War I era military newspaper, The Stars and Read More

Today in History – December 7; Air Raid On Pearl Harbor – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor External, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and Read More

African Americans in the “Forgotten Theater” of World War II

The following is a guest post by Patricia Glaser, a Junior Fellow working with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. July 29, 2019 by Megan Harris, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS They Read More

Today in History – D-Day the end of WWII – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (photos)

D-Day Journeys: A Sneak Peek Behind the (Map) ScenesJune 6, 2019 by Megan Harris June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allies’ famed invasion of the beaches Read More