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Letters from an American – February 7, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, February 7, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 07, 2026 Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until…
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Letters from an American – January 9, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 9, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 09, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore…
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship. In the…
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“The Wounded Generation”: Bearing the invisible scars of war – YouTube
“The Wounded Generation”: Bearing the invisible scars of warCBS Sunday Morning 1.78M subscribers, 37,612 views Nov 9, 2025 When the “Greatest Generation” returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds that were not diagnosed or understood at the time to be PTSD. For his new book, “The Wounded Generation,” historian David…
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When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis – Literary Hub
When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France By Christopher C. Gorham, September 29, 2025 After subduing Paris in the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler launched “a second blitzkrieg,” in the words of scholar Frederic Spotts, “with the intention of making Germany as supreme culturally…
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Civil Discourse – Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment – Joyce Vance
Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment By Joyce Vance, Aug 27, 2025 “The objective of this contract is to obtain all infrastructure, including temporary housing structures, physical plant, staffing, resources, services, and supplies necessary to house aliens in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a safe and secure environment to effectuate…
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Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s on Czechoslovakia – The Washington Post
The Nazi leader used similar tactics to dismember and devour Czechoslovakia before World War II By Michael E. Ruane, Feb. 24, 2022, at 1:15 p.m. EST By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there. The previous…
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New Pearl Harbor book tells the Japanese side of events in fateful attack | Navy Times
By Todd South, Dec 7, 02:18 AM For 80 years the Imperial Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor and wider assault throughout the Pacific theater that brought the United States into World War II has seen countless retellings, analyses and even its share of conspiracy theories. That history has largely been told from a distinctly American perspective for…
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Battleship N.C. turns 60, looks ahead to more decades in Wilmington | Wilmington StarNews
By John Staton, Wilmington StarNews, September 29, 2021 In 1961, the struggling, railroad-abandoned town of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a vastly different place than the growing, film-industry-saturated city we live in in 2021. Charting all of the changes in the Port City over the past six decades would be a story unto itself. As steeped…
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How Books Designed for Soldiers’ Pockets Changed Publishing Forever – Atlas Obscura
Prior to WWII, Americans didn’t think much of softcover books. Source: How Books Designed for Soldiers’ Pockets Changed Publishing Forever – Atlas Obscura
