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D-Day in Documents: Comparing Eisenhower’s “In Case of Failure Memo” to “The Order of the Day”

In this video, Dr. Christopher Hamner compares two historic docments written by General Dwight Eisenhower in the lead-up to D-Day.

Decision: The U.S. Government’s Promise to the Families of the Fallen

In this video, Dr. Christopher Hamner explains the complex system that the U.S. government established after World War II for determining which family member would decide a fallen soldier’s place …

Planning for War: The Logistics of Sending Combat Troops into Battle

In this video, Dr. Christopher Hamner explains how sending combat troops into battle during World War II required significant planning, and how documents from the war can tell us a …

Race and the Enemy: Comparing German and Japanese Depictions in U.S. War Propaganda

In this video, Dr. Christopher Hamner discusses the key distinctions between how U.S. World War II propaganda depicted the Germans and how it depicted the Japanese.