The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles

Top image: A group of Mexican American “zoot suiters” arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots, June 9, 1943. Courtesy of the Library of…

Human Rights of Persons with Schizophrenia Before and After Wartime

Throughout history, schizophrenia has been difficult to define and even more challenging to treat. The lack of knowledge about the disorder has led…

General William H. Simpson and the Endgame in China

Top Photo: Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson and General Albert C. Wedemeyer with two children, August 1945. Courtesy Portal to Texas History When…

Operation Gomorrah: The First of the Firestorms

A Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber over Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah. Note the flares surrounding the bomber’s silhouette.  Strategic bombing was developed during…

Hitler’s Precision-Guided Bombs: Fritz X & Hs 293

Perhaps the most memorable depictions of recent conflict are the videos showing small targets hit by bombs guided by lasers or the Global…

Why D-Day?

Top Photo: Coast Guard-manned USS LST-21 unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a Rhino barge during the early hours of the invasion,…

‘Black Week’: The Darkest Days for the US Army Air Forces

Top Photo: Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" of the 8th Air Force releasing load of incendiary bombs over Oscherleben, Germany. Printed December 1943. Source:…

‘Cuidado!’ The 158th Infantry ‘Bushmasters’ in the Pacific

Edward Martinez’s journey as a Sergeant with the 158th Infantry Regiment took him from his small town in Arizona to the jungles of…

The Fallen Crew of the USS Arizona and Operation 85

Top Photo: TheUSS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. National Archives NAID: 520601 On the morning of December 7, 1941…

The Exterminationist Mindset: Heinrich Himmler’s October 1943 Speeches

Top Photo: Heinrich Himmler lectures to a group of SS officers (the image is taken from an album of SS photographs). Date (sometime…

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Top Photo: People being forced out of the bunkers and marching at gunpoint to the deportation area. This photo was taken as part…

The Night of Broken Glass, Never to Be Forgotten

Top Photo: Vandalized storefront of a shop in Berlin owned by Jews, November 1938. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD. Kristallnacht, or…