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Home Front Chicago (Yank Magazine, 1944)
1944, Home Front, Yank Magazine

Home Front Chicago
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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Chicago, Illinois saw enormous changes take place during the war years, most notably the overnight construction of over 260 defense plants and the opening of its subway system (six miles in length, at that time). Half a million war workers arrived to toil in her new factories while it is said that each city block in Chicago dispatched, on average, at least seven of her sons and daughters for the armed services.

Nerves are taught with war tension. Hard work adds to the strain and increases the tempo. People walk faster in the streets. Stampedes for surface cars, and the new subway are more chaotic than ever… Five thousand block flagpoles have been erected by block committees of the Office of Civilian Defense. Listed in some manner near each are the names of all the GIs from the block. Some of the installations are elaborate and have bulletin boards that are kept up to date with personal news from camps and war theaters.

WW2 Japanese Home Front Article | WW2 Reporter Max Hill Associated Press
1943, Japanese Home Front, The American Magazine

The Japanese Home Front
(American Magazine, 1943)

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This article was written by Max Hill, who was serving as the Tokyo bureau chief for the Associated Press at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. The column consists of his observations as to how the Japanese home front operated during his seven month incarceration.


Click here to read about the Japanese home front during the early period of the Sino-Japanese War.


Click here to read about the W.W. II German home front.

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Shirley MacLaine at 22 (Modern Screen, 1956)
1956, Hollywood History, Modern Screen

Shirley MacLaine at 22
(Modern Screen, 1956)

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Arriving in Hollywood by way of The Trouble with Harry in 1955, and cute as buttons – Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) was the adopted little sister of the Rat Pack, that odd movie star whose sensitive skin burned too easily in the California sun and one of the few starlets who was actually capable of sewing her own clothes.

Should the Federal Government Fund Schools at All? (Literary Digest, 1921)
1921, Education, The Literary Digest

Should the Federal Government Fund Schools at All?
(Literary Digest, 1921)

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‘The public school system will become a vast political machine.’ And this machine, it is charged, ‘will give a Federal Administration the opportunity of creating an educational autocracy, really endangering the liberty of thought and information, which is a basic right of the people.’


This article pertains to a bill that was before the Congress one hundred years ago that proposed the creation of a Department of Education. The bill was defeated. The proposed legislation was enthusiastically supported by the National Education Association.

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1943, Education, The Saturday Review

‘Revolt in the Classroom
(The Saturday Review, 1943)

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This 1943 article by the noted American sociologist, Willard Waller (1899 – 1945), reported on the impact that W.W. II was having on the American educational system. Waller pointed out that during the course of 1942-43 school year, as many as 189,000 teachers had left their classrooms in order to work in defense plants. The author argued four distinct points that would halt the mass exodus – among them was the cry that salaries of teachers must be raised to the point where they match favorably with industry.


A 1944 photo-essay on this topic can be read here…

America vs Russia During the Korean War | 1950 Satellite War 1950 | Soviet Satellite States 1950
1950, Pathfinder Magazine, The Korean War

The Satellite War
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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Then came June 24 [1950]. Her skirts legally clean, Russia hit upon a way to fight the U.S. without technically using a single bullet or soldier of her own. It mattered little if Korean mercenaries, not identifiable nationally with the USSR, were doing the fighting. A satellite war was just as good a way to weaken the U.S. as a direct war – if not better.

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John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune (Coronet Magazine, 1944)
1944, Coronet Magazine, War Correspondents

John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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John Thompson of The Chicago Tribune saw more of the World War II than most other correspondents. He had witnessed to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris and the horrors of the Buchenwald death camp. Throughout his life, Thompson held the distinction of being the last surviving war correspondent to land on Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings; by war’s end he had been awarded the Purple Heart, nine battle stars and was the first correspondent to receive the Medal of Freedom. This column was written in 1943 and pertains to some of his experiences in North Africa and Sicily.

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Richard Tregaskis of the International News Service (Coronet, 1944)
1944, Coronet Magazine, War Correspondents

Richard Tregaskis of the International News Service
(Coronet, 1944)

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Richard Tregaskis (1916 – 1973) covered the invasion of Guadalcanal and the first seven weeks of Marine fighting on that island, the earliest stages of the Tokyo air raid, covered the Battle of Midway, wrote a best-selling book
(Guadalcanal Diary) and accompanied the forces that invaded the Russell Islands.

It wasn’t long after he arrived in the Mediterrian that stories began appearing in American papers under the Tregaskis byline, and he is still ‘somewhere’ on the European fighting front covering the big battles which make news.

The Absent Teachers (Click Magazine, 1944)
1944, Click Magazine, Home Front

The Absent Teachers
(Click Magazine, 1944)

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This 1944 article by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, John W. Studebaker (1887 – 1989), reported on the impact that W.W. II was having on the American educational system. Studebaker pointed out that during the course of the national emergency, as many as 115,000 teachers had left the nation’s classrooms in order to help the war effort in one form or another.

The 45 Communist Goals for the United States by W Cleon Skousen | Political Correctness in the United States | Quote from THE NAKED COMMUNIST
1963, Congressional Record, The Cold War

Red Goals For American Society
(Congressional Record, 1963)

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When we read this transcript from The Congressional Record we were flabbergasted! You will find that it is a compilation that was pieced together in the late Fifties listing all the changes America’s Communist enemies wished to see take place in the United States in order to make their mission of conquest that much easier – yet as you read the list you quickly recognize that at least 85% of this tally fell into place as recently as 2020.

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The State of Women's Suffrage in 1907 (Harper's Weekly, 1907)
1907, Harper's Weekly, Women's Suffrage

The State of Women’s Suffrage in 1907
(Harper’s Weekly, 1907)

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This 1907 article refers to a report made by journalist and suffragist Ida Husted Harper (1851 – 1931), concerning the status of the suffrage movement as it could be found throughout the Western world. A number of interesting issues and seldom remembered concerns are sited throughout this article on the matter of the bullying and boorish ways of those wishing to hamper the advancement of women’s suffrage.

New Job Openings for Women in World War II | WW II Aberdeen Proving Ground 1943
1942, Women (WWII)

Women Behind the Guns
(Assorted Magazines, 1942)

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When it became clear to the employers on the American home front that there was going to be a shortage of men, their attention turned to a portion of the labor pool who had seldom been allowed to prove their mettle: they were called women. This article recalls those heady days at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground when local women were trained to fire enormous artillery pieces in order that the Army weapons specialists understand the gun’s capabilities. This column primarily concerns the delight on all the men’s faces when it was discovered that women were able to perform their tasks just as well as the men.

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