Our nation is deeply wounded after the events of last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a white nationalist gathering erupted in violence, resulting in the death of activist Heather Heyer and ...

Newark went back in time on Monday to the 1940s, the setting for Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America.” Filming is underway in the city for the HBO adaptation of Roth’s 2004 novel, which presents ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

A time when people exuded elegance, and good manners were the norm? The streets were clean, less crowded, and adorned with ...

Forty years before MTV and music videos, there were "soundies." Between 1940 and 1947, about 1,800 were made, three-minute black-and-white films designed to be shown on Panorams, coin-operated film ...

Confronting the global ecological emergency will require a mobilization far more ambitious than any actions now being considered by governments or international bodies. In response, several of the ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was still a ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany's crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper argues both that the decentralized and democratic context in the United States prior to World War II encouraged the development of ...

It was an era when style was unmistakably defined, and men and women, despite the immense challenges they faced, always found a way to express their elegance. There were no piercings or tattoos; ...