While the song conveyed a more secular approach to the holiday season than other Christmas songs at the time, it still rose ...

The Rutland Savings Bank suggested people contribute to the war effort by making an unusual holiday purchase: “You send Hitler or Hirohito a bomb with your compliments when you buy a War Bond." ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Throughout Christmas week, the Herald traditionally reprints messages of hope and cheer, whether they originated in the Herald or from other sources, including presidential speeches. On ...

Life in America during the war years contrasts with other years. A look at 1942 in Aspen demonstrates the adjustments made and the focus, especially, on service members at war overseas. The Aspen ...

Production of a broad array of consumer goods — cars, refrigerators, washing machines, kitchen appliances, lawn mowers, typewriters — had stopped. Sugar, coffee, tea and meats were in short supply.

On Christmas Eve 1942, Doris Epperson and 11 other Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps officers got a present from Uncle Sam. They were promoted, only a few months after women were first allowed to serve in ...

On Dec. 25, 1941, Madeline (Statton) Oswald sat down in her home at 826 The Terrace, opened her diary, and wrote, “What a day this has been…Kauslers & Byers…Porterfields & Leathermans were here…a wild ...

Even before "White Christmas" blanketed airwaves, Billboard was covering "insiders whisper[ing]" about the Irving Berlin song. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director When Christmas comes around, it ...

“Christmas Gifts-Last Roundup” was published in the print edition of the December 19, 1942, issue of The New Yorker.

A Bell Telephone ad in a December 1942 issue of Life magazine warns people to avoid long-distance calls to cities that were centers of war activity. Columnist A Bell Telephone ad in a December 1942 ...