In the World War II History Roundtable’s next presentation at Greenville’s Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, author and U.S. Naval War College professor Jonathan Parshall will be discussing factors ...
Linda Parsons tells about the real and imagined story of her stepmother's brother. Audience members may confront their fear ...
Many advocated the internationalization of atomic weaponry after the war. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle did not.
China had been invaded by Japan in 1931—the first sign of war—and 1937. And the United States did not get active. And finally ...
The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki warn that time is running out to hear the voices of those who survived the nuclear ...
On Oct. 16, 1793, following her conviction for treason, French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was beheaded on the ...
There's no shortage of great epic movies set during World War II, as classics like Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, and The ...
On Oct. 16, 1793, following her conviction for treason, French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was beheaded on the ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...
In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the ...
For some directors, black-and-white imagery serves as a way to conjure nostalgia for bygone eras of cinema. For others, it's ...