WASHINGTON - Standing outside the entrance to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Americans and the Holocaust," which opens April 23, co-curators Rebecca Erbelding and Daniel Greene ...
When Stimson joined FDR’s cabinet, he was 72 and already had an impressive record as a statesman. He had been President Teddy ...
With the notable exception of the internment of Japanese Americans, World War II still has a reputation as a "good war" for civil liberties. In 2019, for example, the authors of a leading history ...
When the White House East Wing was reduced to rubble this week to make way for a lavish ballroom, a physical piece of World ...
V IS FOR VICTORY: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II. By Craig Nelson. Scribner. 448 pages. $32. There are plenty of battles that were crucial to the Allies’ ...
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Weintraub, a historian and bestselling author (11 Days in December), dissects Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic fourth and last presidential campaign in 1944. Republican kingmakers believed a frail ...
Random House. 848 pp. $39.95 Sadly, Kenneth Davis died in June 1999 leaving unfinished this, the fifth volume of his lapidary biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sadly, because this is already ...
Much has been said in the current presidential election campaign about politicians who should be encouraged to put country first and vote for a candidate of the opposite political party. In the ...
Children look at the Statue of Liberty in 1939. A curator of a new Holocaust Museum exhibit hopes visitors will learn how complicated things were during the Holocaust, in a country that was grappling ...