Recruited to the war effort thanks to their deft research skills and technological know-how, librarians used microforms to gather and share intelligence with Allied forces.

In the aftermath of World War II, preserving the nuclear family became a key pillar of liberal democratic ideology.

There were 35 million prisoners of war held during World War II. One soldier's diary full of collages and drawings brings a human dimension to that number.

The legacy of anti-Mussolini resistance in the northern Italian city endures as fascist impulses once again loom.

Prisoners not only supported the war effort in surprising ways during World War II, they fought and died in it.

During World War I, the American Library Association built libraries on military training camps in a project that championed patriotism, literacy, and self-improvement.

A writer for the Baltimore Sun compared Hitler to the sixteenth-century Catholic Saint Ignatius. Archbishop Curley had something to say about that.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.

Following his actions at Pearl Harbor, Messman Doris Miller was the first Black sailor to be honored with the Navy Cross—but only after political pressure.

During World War II, GIs battled boredom with novels provided by the Armed Service Division, raising questions about the “feminizing” effect of reading.