The juxtaposition of intimate family gatherings with sweeping views of cities and rural landscapes reflects a rich tapestry of 1940s American life, blending the personal with the monumental.

The mysterious automobile was found in a hangar on the USS "Yorktown," which has been resting on the bottom of the Pacific ...

To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ... the stage for post-war research into the transistor. 1940s radar relied on a semiconductor crystal, or "rectifier." ...

The value of the American dollar has decreased in the 84 years between 1940 and 2024. One dollar in the U.S. in 1940 would ...

But it wasn’t until Paris fashion houses were rendered inactive during the Nazi occupation in 1940 that American fashion disconnected from the French influence — by force, not by will — for ...