Retro Indy: When WWI began, Hoosiers joined the war effort on the home front
Indiana was home to many residents of German descent when World War I began. Many stopped speaking German outside and ...
How Hello Kitty helped post-WWII Japan conquer the world
Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...
The Republican Herald1d
Medal returned to family of soldier killed in World War I
Call it a day of reunification. Members of the Morrison family were reunited with Pvt. Joseph W. Morrison, an Army medic killed in action in France during World War I, Wednesday at a ceremony in ...
Medal returned to family of soldier killed in World War I at ceremony in Schuylkill County
Call it a day of reunification. Members of the Morrison family were reunited with Pvt. Joseph W. Morrison, an Army medic ...
Stars and Stripes1d
Library of Congress still collecting Vietnam vets’ memories 50 years after war ended
Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
Hello From a French Village That Recalls the U.S. as a Staunch Ally
French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American ...
Navy Times2d
The WWI aviators who gave their lives to help the ‘Lost Battalion’
With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...
Texas Public Radio5d
Rosie the Riveters honored for service in WWII
The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...
Second World War veteran known as ‘the Poppy Man’ made an MBE
Second World War veteran known as ‘the Poppy Man’ made an MBE - George Kelly, 101, was honoured in recognition of more than ...
Daily Maverick on MSN11d
The anguish of literature and the unexpected links between the stories we read
Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found ...
The Diplomat13d
Getting Out of Afghanistan’s Opium Quagmire
According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...