The war raged for just over six years, drew in almost every country in the world, and killed between 70 and 85 million people, profoundly transforming the globe into the modern world as we know it ...

Veterans are known for their great senses of humor, albeit sometimes completely morbid. But if you can’t laugh at it, how do you get through it? Sometimes the best way to heal is through humor. The ...

A proliferation of colorful and striking posters emerged as, in effect, the social media memes of the World War II era. Perhaps the most iconic was the Uncle Sam poster, created by James Montgomery ...

While fighting the Nazis in the Hurtgen Forest, Pedro Cano’s company was cut down by two machine gun nests. Cano ran through the thick forest (also a minefield) with a bazooka. Dodging interlocking ...

Memes translate complex ideas into simple, easily digestible, emotionally evocative messages that draw on an existing cultural schema. Memes construct the narratives that frame events, as we see with ...