http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/25/70-years-after-auschwitz-liberation-a-survivor-remembers/21134493/

Marta Wise was ill and emaciated when she heard the distant sound of soldiers marching toward Auschwitz. The ( Read more... )

World War 1 | American History | World History - Beliefnet.comhttp://www. ( Read more... )

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/12/world-war-ii-s-strangest-battle-when-americans-and-germans-fought-together.html

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_28_what-world-would-look-like-if-other-side-won-war/

I just watched Disc 1, Part 1 of Band of Brothers. The series focuses on the experiences of "Easy Company", 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. The series covers Easy's basic training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market ( Read more... )

I just watched Part 3 of The Pacific. The Pacific is the story of the US Marines in World War II; their service during that war was primarily in the Pacific Theater of the war, and this series tells the stories of that service ( Read more... )

I'm currently watching The Pacific, an HBO series on the Pacific Theater of World War II and the part the US Marines played in driving the Japanese out of all but the Home Islands and thus winning the war in that theater, available on DVD. I got it from the library, so by now it's widely available ( Read more... )

http://www.historybuff.com/newsletter/oct-11.html

Contains:

The Shocking History of Thomas Edison

A Tragic Mistranslation at the End of World War II

Contests

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rebecca-tinsley/why-we-must-replace-our-d_b_927266.html

It is a cliché that people in positions of power lie. And powerful people believe the lies others tell them because it serves their own agenda ( Read more... )

Paul Krugman: Fake Alien Invasion Would End Economic Slump (VIDEO)

Paul Krugman is so frustrated by the lack of support for another round of stimulus spending that he's now calling for a fake alien invasion of the United States to spur a World War II-style defense buildup.

Click to view

(