In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future. Would it be able to transition from a full-bore war economy to a fulsome and stable peacetime one? Many experts at the time had serious doubts. As it turned ...
Did the generous terms of the GI Bill help mitigate post-World War II PTSD?Thomas E. RicksForeign Policy
By the mid-1940s, US higher education had shown its ability to engage in national interests in the effort to win World War II. National reports affirmed that ability and highlighted higher education’s capacity to educate the nation’s citizens and produ
The 1950s in America were a time of nostalgia and neurosis. With the victory in World War II, the US believed that it could politically, culturally and militarily lead the world. But the 50's also saw the Iron Curtain in Europe, the entrenchment of Commu
After World War II, the United States Congress passed The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more commonly known as the G.I. Bill. This bill became our country's single largest source of college scholarships. A generation of veterans benefitted from this entitlement which helped to raise...
During World War I and World War II, it was dangerous for anyone to oppose war or to speak truth to power. When Eugene Victor Debs delivered his Canton anti-war speech in 1918, he went to prison. In An Enemy of the People, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen demonstrated that the majority...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defined intimate partner Violence (IPV) as a self-reported experience of one or more acts of physical aggression and/or sexual violence which has been being committed and had been committed by a current or a former partner since the age of 15 years1. IPV...
The investigation comes just one month after theMontana National Guard issued an apology for its use of photos in recruiting materials that showed Nazi soldiersmarching during World War II. Those images, too, sparked outrage online. This story was produced in partnership withMilitary...
Besides helping fund the creation of the Vietnam, Korean War, World War II and Women in Military Service memorials, the VFW in 2005 became the first veterans' organization to contribute to building the new Disabled Veterans for Life Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 2001, VFW unveiled its ...
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