Category Archives: World War II

Food Insecurity in the Russo-Ukrainian War and World War II: Reading the Present Through History

A tie dye flag saying "No War" with a peace sign hanging in a window of a brick building.

Hannah Boller I recently found myself conversing with someone who believed it was their job to point out that the topic for my master’s thesis was totally useless. “Food is not worth studying, and history even less valuable. I’m not sure why you would go to school to study that.” Most people eat three times a day, maybe have a… Read more »

Letters in Wartime: Teaching the life of Harry G. Dickson, Jr. RCAF

Kristen Jeanveau Collection of materials from the file of Harry George Dickson R/18077. Courtesy of the Ley and Lois Smith War Memory, and Culture Research Collection, Western University. For the last two years, I have been a Graduate Teaching Assistant for History 1810: Wars that Changed the World at Western University. For many students, the world wars are a remote… Read more »

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian Historical Consciousness

by Alessandro Tarsia Having completed my PhD in Indigenous history, I recently returned to my birth nation of Italy. It had been seven years since I visited the villages in my home region of Calabria. While I’d always been aware of the debates over the place of fascism in Italian historical consciousness, I couldn’t help but feel that something was… Read more »