Bread-Slicing Machine: The Inventor
One might expect that the fellow who invented the bread-slicer would be a baker, but inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960) was a jeweler.
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World War II
Latinas in World War II: A Little-Recognized Group
In the 1930s during the Great Depression, Americans were looking for scapegoats, and in an effort to save jobs for “real Americans” they began rounding up and deporting many people who had moved to the U.S. from Mexico, a good number of whom were “real” U.S. citizens. In addition to being a wrong thing to do, the “repatriation” was tragic for many, often resulting in the separation of parents and children.
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Where Were You on September 11?
Is there any American who doesn’t approach September 11th with a feeling of sadness and the thought of, “What will I do? How will I spend the day?”
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Memorial Day: Remembering All Who Have Served, Including Military Dogs
Memorial Day, initially known as Decoration Day, began shortly after the Civil War in the way that one might expect a day of remembrance to begin — mourners started placing
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Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), Writer and Highly Respected War Correspondent
Covered Spanish Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam War as well as wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 Author of numerous
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Frances Wills and Harriet Ida Pickens, First African-American Women to become WAVES Officers (1944)
With so many men going overseas during World War II, the government needed ways to get additional help. In the Navy their solution was to create the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in 1942. By creating it as an “emergency” service, the Navy was able to admit women to serve during the war years but at the end of the war the plan was that the women would be discharged.