Masters of the Air: American Bomber Boys Fight the Good War
Masters of the Air. Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Tim…
Browsing: World War II
Support the Troops: Gender and U.S. Civil-Military Relations During the “War on Terror”
During the early years of the “global war on terror,” the call to “support the…
“I Love America”: Fundamentalist Responses to World War II
After the Scopes Trial in 1925, fundamentalism seemed to be in decline. Many Americans in…
Americans, the Holocaust, and the Power of Unexpected Places
When I began curating the special exhibition Americans and the Holocaust for the United States…
From Memory to History? The Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
If 50th anniversaries of war tend to be the last grand occasion in which the…
Obama in Hiroshima: A Mandate for Looking Back
On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting U.S.…
Sands of War: Patton’s Desert Training Center on Film
Once it became clear that Americans would be fighting in the deserts of North Africa…
Why War Anniversaries Matter (or Don’t)
Andrew Preston teaches American history at Cambridge University, where he is a fellow of Clare…