
On December 19, 1944, the war in Western Europe was no longer a matter of clean arrows on orderly maps. It had become a frozen,…

At 11:32 on the morning of November 29th, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran knelt in the tail section of a B7 flying fortress named Ricky…

December 7th, 1943. In Tunis, Franklin Roosevelt walked into a room to make a decision that would shape both D-Day and the American presidency. Sitting…

Throughout the Second World War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of all Allied forces in Europe, encountered a three-star general at the front lines…

It is 10:15 in the morning on July 10th, 1943. Major General Omar Bradley stands on the deck of the USS Anon, anchored off the…

In early March 1943, Omar N. Bradley arrives in the North African theater to assess the Shaken 2 Corps in the wake of Cassarin Pass.…

The photograph arrived at the Pennsylvania Historical Society on a gray Tuesday morning in March 2019. Elena Vasquez, a senior archivist with 23 years…

Sarah Mitchell’s hands trembled as she adjusted the high-resolution monitor in her cramped office at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture. It…

In the dimly lit restoration lab of the Atlanta Conservation Institute, Dr. Megan Collins adjusted her glasses and leaned closer to the screen, her…

In the attic of his late grandmother’s home in Atlanta, Marcus Webb found himself surrounded by a lifetime of memories—dusty cardboard boxes filled with…

