The Plight of the Censor
Working as a state film censor, Helen Tingley knew the real trouble with movies wasn’t immorality. It was the stupidity.
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Tag Archives: 1940s
How The Future Looked Without The Bomb
Before the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima, America was preparing for, and dreading, a long, bloody invasion of Japan.
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Classic Covers: August Cool-Down
Is there any relief from this heat? Yes! It’s August, and the dog days of summer are upon us, but we found delightful covers from 1912 to 1955 showing ways to get wet and cool down. We wouldn’t recommend all of them.
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The Post Discovers Country Music… in 1944
“Uncle Art Satherley seeks out country music in the bayous, canebrakes and hills, and brings it back twangin’ and sobbin’ to 25,000,000 addicts.”
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How Montgomery Smashes Rommel
Alan Moorehead (July 22, 1910 — September 29, 1983) was a famous war correspondent during the second World War before becoming a widely respected historian. This article, which depicts the nature of desert warfare, commemorates Moorehead’s 100th anniversary birthday this Thursday.
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War, Work, and Women, Part II
According to some 1944 critics, you just couldn’t get good war workers anymore.
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War, Work, and Women
Life on the home front offered many American women rare work experience, and an unexpected education.
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Family Life in Wartime
A mother of three details the nearly overwhelming task of keeping her family well-fed and healthy on $2,000 a year.
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Life in the Shadow of a Distant War
Part one of a series on the hopes and disappointments of Americans enduring a lengthy war overseas.
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Learning to Appreciate Liberty
Eternal vigilance, continual maintenance, public support—what’s good for a landmark is good for the country.
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When Science Takes You for a Ride
If roller coasters are so terrifying, if they’re so good at giving you a sense of imminent death, why do they make so much money?
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Royal Deceiver
Of the many varieties of impostors, none gets more credulity more quickly than the fake aristocrat. Harry Prince-Michael-Romanoff Gerguson was one of the most successful.
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Addressing War in Wartime: Post Editorials from the 1940s
Two editorials, written in the 1940s, reflect some of America’s attitudes toward sacrifice and risk during the height of combat in Europe and Asia.
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The Ability and the Duty to Be Heroic
What do we owe Americans like Rodger Young? How do we repay an average soldier who saved his comrades at the cost of his own life?
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The One-Man Army
Ever hear of a one-man army? Neither had we until we received an intriguing letter from a World War II veteran who was the entire “garrison” on strategically important Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. He was featured in a 1945 article called “The War’s Cushiest Billet.”
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May 22, 1947: The Cold War Begins
Two years after World War II, America faced the prospect of an even longer, more risky conflict.
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In the GI’s Shirt Pocket
Occasionally, in our archives or a forgotten spot in the office, we find a little treasure.
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