Inspired by America in the 1940s, the University Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir, University Choir, and Orpheus Singers will perform a program filled with pre- and post-war compositions, ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

It’s a cliché to refer to a decade as a "decade of change." In the summation of our nation's history, what decade wasn't a decade of change? Change is perhaps the great constant of American history, ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was still a ...

Some American commentators began to wonder what America would do to prepare for war. Others, remembering the horrors of the "war to end all wars" they had fought in Europe a little over two decades ...

In the late 1800s and into the early 1900s there was a big trend of exhibitions and world’s fairs that celebrated the past and looked optimistically to the future. The first ever world’s fair, called ...

We think of 1940s America as a simpler time, but even then there were grisly murders, disappearances, and mob hits, some of ...