In January 1940, the British government introduced food rationing. The scheme was designed to ensure fair shares for all at a time of national shortage. The Ministry of Food was responsible for ...

A soldier’s pocket can look too small to explain a war. But in World War II, the contents of an American GI’s pockets revealed an entire industrial civilization. A waxed ration box, a chocolate bar, a ...

Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...