world war ii
Landscape Every now and then, it is worth watching footage of D-Day, just for the scale of it and the sheer fear that the soldiers felt, and for very good.
Editorial cartoon promoting Dumbarton Oaks conference to create United Nations
On August 6, 1944, Philadelphia's transit strike over hiring black drivers ends. This strike, done shortly after D-Day and when the nation was moving toward winning the war, demonstrates the.
On June 15, 1942, workers at a General Motors factory engaged in a wildcat strike to protest new policies that forbade them from smoking on the job. While this may.
This 1945 Army training film about how soldiers should not eat "native foods" is both amusing and, well, racist. That Vienna sausages are supposed to be the safe food here.
This is the grave of Ira Hayes. Born in 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona, part of the Gila River Pima Reservation, Hayes grew up in the poverty of the Native communities.
On June 7, 1943, 16 black workers at Buckeye Cotton Oil Company in Memphis, a Proctor & Gamble owned operation, went on a wildcat strike in protest of continued workplace.
On May 1, 1943, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9340, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to seize the nation's coal mines after the United Mine Workers of America.