Students at the University of California (Berkeley) participate in a one-day peace strike opposing U.S. entrance into World War II, April 19, 1940
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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 January 4, 1944, workers in the Minidoka Japanese concentration camp in Idaho went on strike in a short-lived but remarkable moment that demonstrates how workers, even in oppressive conditions, act to defend their perceived rights on the job. First, the so-called "interment camps" were...
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 is a pretty interesting World War II infantry training film. See, an American takes two Japanese soldiers hostage. He's furious that they killed so many of his men. But they respond that those soldiers killed themselves by being so stupid. And then the rest...
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.
World War II did not lead to a wave of great literature, especially given its overwhelming importance in the twentieth century. But it sure led to a wave of great film. Perhaps no other event has so dominated global film. Some of this is of...
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.