Posts tagged World War II
History Matters to Me
It's a mystery.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it seems fitting to post this - a wonderful collection of photographs of African Americans in service in World War II. According to this site at the National Archives, over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft and many African American women volunteered to serve.
London in World War II. this new photo gallery from Life is a reminder of how little we Americans have felt the direct effects of war.
Back in the History Saddle
I have abandoned this blog for a terribly long time while running again for school board, getting a budget passed, working, dealing with family, and working. but I miss it. While I have another blog that’s eduction related I like the opportunities to record here all things randomly related to social studies - of which, I am, really, a teacher.
I thought this link was a good place to start - a commentary on the historical accuracy of World War II.
A series of paintings by Soviet artists of World War II. Estimates are that close to 27million people died within the Soviet Union, with around 10 million military casualties.
Thanks to Andrew Sullivan and The Daily DIsh.
Four Freedoms. Speaking of. This is a very nice new novel by John Crowley, set during World War II. Crowley has a blog here and a recent nonfiction article called “In the Midst of Death” here.
1939:
via www.chgs.umn.edu
Boris Kobe (1905-81) was a Slovenian architect and painter who became a political prisoner in the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich, Germany.
The contextual framework and point of departure of the art project is a deck of tarok/tarot cards made in Allach by Kobe most probably after the April 1945 liberation by American forces (see card XXI which depicts liberation and the Slovenian flag, and Allach being burned). As a whole, this work of art represents a visual summary of life in a concentration camp, the main vehicle of which consists of Kobe’s tragic and humiliating sequences spiced with acrid humor. At the same time, this tiny exhibit is a miniature chronicle of the twilight of humanity brought about by Nazism, which regarded a human being, and therefore the artist himself, as a mere number.
Click here to view the whole collection.
The War of the World by Niall Ferguson
This book was very useful for teaching the twentieth century; here, Ferguson is interviewed about the book (and its implications for Iraq) by Fareed Zakaria. Ferguson’s own Website is worth a visit, too.
