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Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

September 27, 2023

“Picturing My Family” is a new series at Not Even Past. As a Public History magazine, we aim to make History more accessible by publishing research features and other articles. But, of course, History doesn’t reach us solely through words. It lives on in images, too. A good photograph transmits as much information as a line […]

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

January 29, 2023

From the Editors: “Picturing My Family” is a new series at Not Even Past. As a Public History magazine, we aim to make History more accessible by publishing research features and other articles. But of course, History doesn’t reach us solely through words. It lives on in images, too. A good photograph transmits as much […]

Episode 78: The U.S. and Decolonization after World War II

February 9, 2016

Guest R. Joseph Parrott takes a look at the indecisive position the United States took on decolonization after helping liberate Europe from the threat of enslavement to fascism.

Student Showcase – Better Safe Than Sorry? Internment of Rights in World War II

July 2, 2014

Helen Hartman Rockport Fulton Middle School Junior Division Historical Paper Read Helen’s Paper Here The internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II is a familiar story. But did you know that Japanese, German, and Italian families from around Latin America were also deported to the U.S. and held in INS camps? […]

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

June 1, 2014

“Nothing brings history alive like discussing it with students on the spot where it took place.” That’s Professor Charters Wynn, the current Director of the Normandy Scholar Program, a course of study at the University of Texas at Austin that combines a semester of coursework with a three-week trip to historical sites in Europe. “Life-changing” and “unforgettable” are two words that often come up when students describe their experience in the program.

“For a Gunner”: A World War II Love Story

September 22, 2013

They met on the boardwalk of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Labor Day of 1941, introduced by mutual friends.  She was a self-described ambitious career girl; an English-major graduate of the University of Delaware, she would spend the war years working first in the advertising department of the DuPont Company, and then as the editor of RCA Victor’s company newsletter. He was a mail clerk for DuPont when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in December of 1941 and began a three-month stint of basic training.

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II by Gabrielle Hecht (1998)

July 30, 2012

The hourglass-shaped towers of the Chinon nuclear plant look out of place so near the Loire Valley’s famous castles. Regardless, nuclear energy generated almost 80 percent of all electricity in France last year, more than any other country, and a sizable surplus for export, too.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (1999)

September 28, 2011

Before John Dower's Embracing Defeat, many English-language accounts of the United States’ occupation of Japan contextualized the event in terms of American foreign policy and the emerging Cold War. Scholars writing from this Western-centric perspective produced much fine scholarship, and no doubt will continue to do so.

More Looking at World War II

September 28, 2011

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September 26, 2011

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