Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the di

Presents interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, stories, eyewitness accounts, and excerpts from historical writings from different perspectives on a

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight

Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry in World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolation factions as represented

Everything changed on the morning of December 7, 1941, and life in San Francisco was no exception. Flush with excitement and tourism in the wake of the 1939 Gol