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I AM AN AMERICAN

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Oct 02, 2014

Civil War, World War II

Gallery The Suspect Americans: A Prelude to Japanese Internment During World War II

Jeff Nilsson and

Original colour photo of a Nieuport 17 C.1 fighter of World War I

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Sep 29, 2014

Gallery The Great War: September 26, 1914

Jeff Nilsson and

Armchair General by Norman Rockwell, April 29,1949

Sep 24, 2014

Norman Rockwell

Tuning In to WWII

Joseph Scales

London-Street

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Sep 22, 2014

Civil War, World War I

Gallery 1914: London Goes To War

Jeff Nilsson and

“Hitlerites From the Country Districts of Bavaria”

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Sep 11, 2014

Gallery Those Wacky Nazis

Jeff Nilsson

Hitler review troops

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Aug 28, 2014

Gallery A Look Inside Germany’s First Conquest

Jeff Nilsson

English Troops on Parade in Calcutta. June 20, 1914 © SEPS

Jul 25, 2014

Post Perspective, World War I

Did the Post See World War I Coming?

Jeff Nilsson and

drawing of an airplane and a long armed passenger picking a flower from the ground. Source: Shutterstock.com

Jun 20, 2014

Lighter Side, Travel

Flying High: FAQs for Air Travelers

Dave Barry

From the archive: J.C Leyendecker's 1942 New Year's Baby reflected the anxiety felt by the American public as we dropped our isolationist stance and prepared for war.

Jun 20, 2014

Politics and Policy, Post Perspective

A New American Isolationism?

David A. Andelman

“In Oxford, Ohio, volunteers were taught how to protect themselves from beatings.” Photo credit Lynn Pelham. © SEPS 1964

Jun 19, 2014

Civil War, Post Perspective, The 1960s

Victims of Politics: The 1964 Murder of Three Civil Rights Workers

Jeff Nilsson

IBM typewriter ad in The Saturday Evening Post, 1954.

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May 29, 2014

Post Perspective, The 1950s

Gallery How Americans Saw Themselves in the 1950s

Jeff Nilsson

Richard Loeb (right) and Nathan Leopold (left) in 1924.

May 23, 2014

History, Post Perspective

The Leopold and Loeb Murder Trial, 90 years later

Jeff Nilsson

Cartoon of a rocket ship heading to the moon where there's a headstone that says "R.I.P."

Apr 18, 2014

American Life, Culture

What’s Your Death Style?

Cable Neuhaus

close-up of a game being played on a tablet

Apr 18, 2014

Fun & Games, Lighter Side

Another Level: How Candy Crush nearly crushed my soul

Marjorie Tesser

Charles Lindbergh adjusts his parachute in front of Sergeant Bell’s experimental biplane on Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-to-late 1920s, while Bell waits in the plane.

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective

Lindbergh Re-examined

Lynne Olson

Close up of rippling American flag. John Clymer © 1942 SEPS

Apr 17, 2014

Post Perspective

The Myth of America’s Decline

Josef Joffee