Topic: War & Peace
On May 5, 1942, with the United States at war with Japan, the U.S. War Defense Command announced the forced removal of Japanese and Japanese American families from the West Coast. Within months, some ...
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941, set in motion a series of events and decisions that led to what has been called the worst violation of constitutional rights in American histo...
In the far northwest corner of Washington, residents of San Juan County (an archipelago of small, rural islands in the Salish Sea), responded quickly to the nation's needs during World War II with ene...
Priscilla "Patsy" Bullitt Collins (1920-2003), a member of a prominent Seattle family, was a businesswoman and longtime civic leader whose many interests included the Young Men's Christian Association...