In the 1940s, as the U.S. escaped the Great Depression and entered into WWII, it began to understand just how devastating those lean years had been. As the country called up its young men to fight, it realized that up to one-third of them were unfit for service due to malnutrition (...
Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience. Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full throttle in pursuit of truth, for which she paid a huge persona...
Citino said making do with less was not popular but, nevertheless, Americans banded together and changed most every aspect of their lives to contribute to the war effort. Outside the home, the American economy also changed. With men in the armed forces, women went to work as in factorie...
Take women out of infantry, combat engineers, cavalry scouts, armor, and combat medics attached to the infantry. Artillery is questionable, in my mind. Whether or not women can do the job is not the issue, they can. Many are currently serving as both enlisted and officers, and they have ...
But, for his time, William Shakespeare's body of work revolutionized what the English language could do. Changed forever how we saw ourselves. His work demonstrated in and of itself what humans could do to change the world. Simply put, Shakespeare, like Geoffrey Chaucer before him, made ...
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including the kidnapping and raping of women or the mistreatment of POWs. In relation to the war crime trials after 1945 these perpetrators were interviewed by the Allied powers and could reflect on their acts during the war. How they perceived their own role for the named eruptions of violenc...
in this country. It will be higher taxes and/or lower spending. Given that my proposal has such large net efficiency gains as compared to the more likely alternative, it’s not impossible that such a compromise might emerge from a committee of statesmen (and women.) Whether it can get ...
Ice cream production isa $700 million-plus industryemploying 1000 people in Illinois. That's all to say: we care about ice cream. If that's true, why is our favorite flavor something I wouldn't try in one million years? Scrolling through the list of each state's favorite ice cream, I...
This year in military history was significant for women in the military, marking the first time they were admitted to service academies. More than 300 women entered, including 119 women at West Point alone. [Pictured: Women in the Air Force, or WAFs, and staff at the I.G. Brown Training...