
Tag: world war ii

I love the films produced by the military in World War II. Here is Mission Accomplished, a short 1943 film about the success of the B-17.
On April 27, 1944, Attorney General Francis Biddle arrived in Chicago to order Montgomery Ward head Sewell Avery to either extend his workers’ contract so they would not strike during the war or

December 7, 1941. Asian colonial power attacks U.S. colonial outposts in Hawaii and Philippines. Next 74 years sees no awareness by Americans that racist colonialism of Japan and racist colonialism of
Above: The actual Rosie the Riveter image, which did not seek to fight unions I know I will never win this fight, but if we are going to try and set world records in women dressing up as “Rosie

Rita Hayworth gives up her car bumpers to support the war effort in World War II.
If Germany wants Greece to pay its debts, maybe Germany should pay Greece the reparations for World War II it owes the country.
Worth remembering who influenced Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, the CIA, and all the other architects of American torture: The United States knows quite a bit about waterboarding. The U.S. government R
In 1938, a couple of Jewish Americans went on vacation to Poland, where one of them was from. They made films of their trip. Some of them survived. Thanks to their grandson finding them and donating t
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- The man behind the Whitewater non-scandal strikes out again
- This man thinks he can be president
- The strange quasi-immortality of the 40-hour work week
- Teaching Reconstruction
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,289
- Rules for Sociopaths
- LGM Film Club, Part 343: Ali-Frazier I
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