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African-Americans Mourned for Lincoln 1865
1865, Abraham Lincoln, Harper's Weekly

Lincoln’s Truest Mourners
(Harper’s Weekly, 1865)

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“[To the liberated slaves] the name Abraham Lincoln meant freedom, justice, home, family, happiness. In his life they knew that they lived. In his perfect benignity and just purpose, inflexible as the laws of seed-time and harvest, they trusted with all their souls, whoever doubted. Their deliverer, their emancipator, their friend, their father, he was known to them as the impersonation of that liberty for which they had wept and watched, hoping against hope, praying in the very extremity of despair and waiting with patience so sublime that fat prosperity beguiled us into the meaness of saying that their long endurance of oppression proved that God had created them to be oppressed.”

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Nicaragua Declares War on Japan | Costa Rica Declares War on Japan 1941 | Canada Declares War on Japan 1941
1941, PM Tabloid, World War Two

America’s Hemispheric Allies Declare War Before FDR
(PM Tabloid, 1941)

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Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, the nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Dominion of Canada all declared war upon Imperial Japan. The United States wouldn’t do so until the next morning.


Although there were a number of Latin American countries that declared war on the Axis, only two, Brazil and Mexico, put men in the field (Mexican nationals served in the U.S. military)- click here to read about the Brazilians.

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White House Ghosts | White House Haunting Stories
1958, Americana, Sir! Magazine

Haunted White House
(Sir! Magazine, 1958)

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In the 218-year history of the White House, only ten people have died within its walls – yet everyone who has ever perceived the presence of a ghost insists that the spirit was that of Abraham Lincoln (who died a few blocks to the east). President Eisenhower was no exception.

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FDR WW II Price Controls | FDR WW II Economic Plans 1941
1941, Home Front, New Deal, Newsweek, Newsweek Magazine

New Deal Price Controls
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

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This article appeared six months before the 77th Congress passed a price control law as a wartime measure in an attempt to stave off inflation. The column pertains to the early planning of a wartime economy as the nation prepared to devote itself to total war. You’ll remember that the Supreme Court found FDR’s price control schemes (the NRA) to be unconstitutional during the Thirties. Regardless of their efforts, inflation still kicked-in after the war, up until the Republican Congress cut taxes.

High School Home Front Victory Corps Volunteers 1944
1944, Home Front, See Magazine

The Victory Corps
(See Magazine, 1944)

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The Victory Corps was a voluntary program open to American high school
and college students during the Second World War. It was established in September of 1942 with an eye toward preparing teenagers for military service. Although its primary concern involved weapons training, physical fitness and mathematics, it also had a “farm volunteer” arm, as this article about one branch of the Sacramento Victory Corps makes clear.


More about youth and the war effort can be read here…

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Life During the Blitz on Britain | Sculptor Clare Sheridan During WW II
1941, Battle of Britain, Collier's Magazine

Life Under Siege
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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Here is an account of life during the Blitz, as written by sculptor Clare Sheridan (née Frewen; 1885 – 1970):


“I have from the very beginning put [poison] gas out of my thoughts and refused to carry a gas mask. But in a mad world growing madder daily who knows what the madmen may not resort to!… According to the gas booklet, the stuff will come through the window clacks, under the door and down the chimney.”

British War Labor 1941
1941, Battle of Britain, Collier's Magazine

”Workingman’s War”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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This 1941 Collier’s article looks at the British working class during the Blitz on London. Numerous men and women were interviewed concerning their aspirations and hopes for the post-war world. Much is written about the 300 free kitchens that were placed throughout London to accommodate them as well as the free schools that were instituted to train war plant workers how to use the various machines needed to create the necessary war materinél.


“Hitler isn’t making war against capitalism, as he says he is. He’s not the great proletarian he brags he is, but is instead deliberately bombing civilians, their schools, churches, homes and hospitals in order to throw the civilian population into despair and terror. Well, he has failed.”

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1944, Battle of Britain, Yank Magazine

”Buzz-Bombs Blitz”
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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Launched by air or from catapults posted on the Northern coast of France, the German V-1 “Buzz-Bomb” was first deployed against the people of London on June 12, 1944. Before the V-1 campaign was over 1,280 Britons would fall on greater London. 1,241 of these rockets were successfully destroyed in flight.

Accompanied by a diagram of the contraption, this is a brief article about London life during the “Buzz-Bomb Blitz”. Quoted at length are the Americans stationed in that city as well as the hardy Britons who had endured similar carnage during the Luftwaffe bombing campaigns earlier in the war.

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