The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Walt Disney Studios plunged headlong into the war effort. Some 300 employees — about one-third of the Disney work force — took on a long list of assignments, ...

In the war world last week millions of big and little men had changed, or planned to change their peace-world jobs. Some of the big ones: In Hamburg, patriotic Heinrich Hagenbeck, director of one of ...

World War II ended 80 years ago this August and winning it took everyone pulling together to solve logistical problems, like getting the green beans picked in Marion County, Oregon. As the Allies ...

(See Cover) Only a fraction of British man power—less than 1,000,000 men—is in uniform. Full-time “war work” for British women therefore means little more than that if one cares to volunteer one can ...

The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) hosts a special moderated panel, titled “War, Work and Women,” Saturday, Sept. 27, at 1:30 p.m. in the AHC’s Stock Growers Room. The event, ...

Anna* was looking forward to a trip to the US. But this isn’t what she had in mind. Early this year, Anna was living in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she spent years building a life and career in the tech ...

Mandler’s curiosity is piqued by ideas: he has a prurient interest in what is going on under the covers of books. As a senior at Barnard College, Mead took a course from Franz Boas, the father of the ...

War bonds were once a patriotic investment that helped fund military efforts while promising a return to citizens who purchased them. These long-term investments were heavily promoted during World War ...