Category: Starred Posts

World War II led to the greatest loss of human life of any war in history, with the death toll in the tens of millions. It can be said that the war also led to the greatest displacement of people … Continue reading →

In Frantz Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness”, he expresses that “for not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man…The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man” (Fanon,110). Colonial black migrants entering England were not seen as “British” because they did … Continue reading “Race and the British Identity”

After the end of a world that devastated the nation–and even further, the globe–it is undoubted that a movement similar to  Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibited was needed. With a nation plagued with the hatred of races, the fear of communism, and much more, this photographic display of the “oneness” of humans was the answer to some of […]

In the early years of the Cold War following World War II, tensions were high globally. After the biggest and bloodiest war ever fought in human history only two super powers remained, the United States and the Soviet Union. The … Continue reading →

Ten years following the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the emotional and physical scars created by the bombing were still prominent in Hiroshima. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Japan and Norman Cousins, an American editor who worked to bring awareness to the struggle of Japanese war victims created a program to fly women, who […]

As World War Two in the European Theater came to a close, the Americans were working towards a solution to end the War in the Pacific. United States President Truman came to the conclusion that in order to end the … Continue reading →

Nearing the end of World War II, the Allied forces were desperate to end the fighting with Japan in the Pacific. For the American troops it seemed as though the Japanese would not have surrendered until every soldier and citizen … Continue reading →

During wartime, it is no surprise that visions of homecoming kept the soldiers morale higher; images of soldiers returning to their family and/or spouse was pushed by American propaganda, and reminders were given from the higher ups to remind soldiers to be

  Following the Second World War millions of soldiers rushed home in the hopes that their lives would be better following years of fighting and loss on the battlefield. Soldiers returning home to Leningrad in the Soviet Union were greeted with “fanfares, bunting and celebration” but this was  merely an instrument of propaganda created by … Continue reading “Battle on the Home Front”

For many veterans of World War II the trials and tribulations did not simply end with the conclusion of the war. The process of returning to a “life of normalcy” was a long and arduous road for a lot of … Continue reading →