Category Archive: WWII

The Mirage of the Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Whitewashing of the Nazi Past

Erwin Rommel comes as close to being a household name in America as a Nazi general can get. […]

Charles and Ray Eames: How Wartime L.A. Shaped the Mid-Century Modern Aesthetic

During the mid-1990s, while working evenings and weekends on her PhD dissertation on 18th-century Philadelphia, veteran Library of […]

Noiring LA: Mildred Pierce, The Reckless Moment, and Reinforcing Postwar Suburban Gender Roles

“Often like a ghost in the shadows, the mother haunts film noir,” observed Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo […]

The American Military: Nineteen Histories about War, Society, and the U.S. Military’s Influence on the Nation

Even today, the category of military history still elicits a bit of head scratching. Our own John Southard […]

Reading Piketty at the Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson has always had a penchant for the past.  Ever since The Royal Tenenbaums, his movies have […]

Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture

[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared under the Intersections column at KCET Departures, May 30, 2013.] In the […]