EDITOR’S NOTE: Throughout Christmas week, the Herald traditionally reprints messages of hope and cheer, whether they originated in the Herald or from other sources, including presidential speeches. On ...

Life in America during the war years contrasts with other years. A look at 1942 in Aspen demonstrates the adjustments made and the focus, especially, on service members at war overseas. The Aspen ...

Production of a broad array of consumer goods — cars, refrigerators, washing machines, kitchen appliances, lawn mowers, typewriters — had stopped. Sugar, coffee, tea and meats were in short supply.

In the Christmas mode, here is a story, first published in this column in July 2007, about Christmas 1942 at the Jay C. Hormel household. "Jay Hormel’s wife Germaine grew up in France. She had seen ...

On Christmas Eve 1942, Doris Epperson and 11 other Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps officers got a present from Uncle Sam. They were promoted, only a few months after women were first allowed to serve in ...

Tim Luckhurst has received funding from News UK and Ireland Ltd. He is a member of the Society of Editors and the Free Speech Union and a member of the Editorial Board of the Conversation UK. His book ...

On Dec. 25, 1941, Madeline (Statton) Oswald sat down in her home at 826 The Terrace, opened her diary, and wrote, “What a day this has been…Kauslers & Byers…Porterfields & Leathermans were here…a wild ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – It’s a Christmas mystery that you might be able to help solve. A 1942 film reel discovered in a Knoxville antique store has archivists hoping to identify the couple seen ...

Dr. Harmsen has produced several insightful works on the conduct of W. W. II in the Asia-Pacific theatre, notably Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City. In this often very moving book, however, he ...

Abingdon, VA – Barter Theatre will be holding auditions for male and female young actors for roles in the upcoming production of WMKS: Christmas 1942 on Saturday, September 12 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

A Bell Telephone ad in a December 1942 issue of Life magazine warns people to avoid long-distance calls to cities that were centers of war activity. Columnist A Bell Telephone ad in a December 1942 ...